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Tract By William Carlos Williams I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists- unless one should scour the world- you have the ground sense necessary. See! the hearse leads. I begin with a design for a hearse. ....

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.... weight. No wreaths please- especially no hot house flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes-a few books perhaps- God knows what! You realize how we are about these things my townspeople- something will be found-anything even flowers if he had come to that. So much for the hearse. For heaven's sake though see to the driver! Take off the silk hat! In fact that's no place at all for him- up there unceremoniously dragging our friend out to his own dignity! Bring him down-bring him down! Low and inconspicuous! Id not have him ride on the wagon at all-damn him- the undertaker's understrapper! Let him ....