In the Bleachers by Ben Zaehringer for February 22, 2022

I’d say it’s a little late for that.

The boneyard is real popular people are just dying to get in

I had a neighbor who was a retiree from the Boston area, he used to tell people that he had 10,000 people under him before he retired in the late ’80s. His job: superintendent of cemeteries for one of the suburban cities up there.

The rest got in… they’re Gratefully Dead.

People are dying to get in but if they don’t have the money for the tickets, …..where will the go?

I live in the rural Midwest where one can observe three types of cemeteries: rural cemeteries which are in land adjoining a rural church, rural cemeteries which are non-denominational and typically the resting place of “pioneer” families, and cemeteries in the closest town. If one strolls a “town” cemetery, one often notices a distinct “Catholic” section to the cemetery, which is (or was, at one time) separated from the rest of the cemetery by a fence. I don’t know if this was the choice of the Catholics or the choice of the non-Catholics, but I have observed it often enough to conclude that the division was intentional. And because (as everyone of any religious stripe understood) the cemeteries were/are right next to each other because there was no sense breaking up two farm fields for two separate cemeteries.

It takes dynamite to get me up

Too much of everything is just enough

One more thing that I gotta say

I need a miracle every day

- Barlow / Weir

This situation looks grave

The rest were stoned but he bricked it.

I’ve always heard that expression – somebody punched his ticket; now I know.

Wound up on the outside looking in.

Danged gated communities

Got a ticket for under the big elm, whatcha gimme for it?