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Look, Papa Sleeps

The funeral director lies and tells the grave digger the service is for an old cowboy named Mr. Bobo

Policeman patrol with shotguns as Lee Harvey Oswald’s widow weeps before the open casket telling her children “Look, papa sleeps”

The minister never arrives fearing sniper fire

Hours after John F. Kennedy is laid to rest six reporters become reluctant pallbearers for his assassin

Bereaved as furniture movers they quickly return an unwanted corpse back to the earth

from eli loves — Zachary Cole

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