meine Opa
three things I remember
- his veins turned inside out, it scared me the most of anything I've ever seen. They were seriously hollowed out into his arms in a gross kind of reversal of a really muscular man
- my Oma was too scared to come in, she sat outside all day smoking until me said his only word of the day "Aenne" 3 weeks off their 50 year anniversary and he wouldn't die without her
-everyone in the room just knew when it was over, 15 people had been standing around watching him for a day and a half and suddenly we all turned around, put on the lights and started with the funeral arrangements.
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Sat 1 Mar 2008, 4:24, Reply)