“My blessed California, you are so wise.
You render death abstract, efficient, clean.
Your afterlife is only real estate,
And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen.”

—  Dana Gioia

"A California Requiem"
Poetry, Interrogations at Noon (2001)

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