Thursday, July 8, 2010

The wail

"Someone just died," B said as he came into the house after class. Of course my immediate sarcastic response was "What you're psychic now?"But as I stepped outside I could hear wailing, the intense cry when someone dies. There is no other way to describe it. It is a wail. Deep pain, sorrow, tears and sobbing all coming out in a single sound. It's intense, surreal and heart-wrenching. A lady came out of a compound literally 20 yards away. She was being held up by another lady as her body...
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