Does it all lead to just this, a gaping hole in the ground, sniffing but impatient mourners their predictable tissues at the ready?
an all-too-practised priest in familiar garb does the expected; his suitably tremulous voice has the standard formality as he goes through the ritual and those years of convolution spiced with some straight and narrow
do they culminate in this terrible charade? Surely this can't be it, this cavalier show by fellow-travellers, by small cliques here and there, sharing juicy titbits of gossip - least concerned with the slowly sinking forgotten casket
in my heart of hearts i say this can't be it, surely!