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Home Burial

Kabolobari Benakole14 August 2012
The old man left a will to this effect: (He wrote so much as his diaries show.) Should I inconvenience you yet again With details of his words of wishes –
They’re indeed long – we shall depart again Not realizing our reason to convene; To bury him where he wants to bury him, To bury him where he wants to bury him;
I quote, “Home is wherever I call home. Home is where we ought to be buried. Home is where man asserts himself as man. I know no other tradition except this –
“Upon my property built to my taste, Wherever you find that – home or not home, According to existing traditions - May you lay my soul, if you must.” Unquote.
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Noel Ihebuzor15 Aug 2012

Nice! Treat an issue that has some grave relevance for where a man calls Home!

Kabolobari29 Oct 2012

There's poets' only cemetery in Calabar, and there is where I wish to be buried.

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