We have the picture of you in mind,
\nwhen you were young, posturing
\n(for a photographer) in scarves
\n(if you could have done it) but now,
\nfor none of you is immortal, ninety-
\nthree, the three, ninety and three,
\nMary, Ellen and Emily, what
\nbeauty is it clings still about you?
\nUndying? Magical? For there is still
\nno answer, why we live or why
\nyou will not live longer than I
\nor that there should be an answer why
\nany should live and whatever other
\nshould die. Yet you live. You live
\nand all that can be said is that
\nyou live, time cannot alter it—
\nand as I write this Mary has died.<\/p>\n
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