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Med Humanities 2004;30:94
  • Opening the word hoard

Flawless for Tom

  1. L Rosenblatt4
  1. 4Dr L Rosenblatt, St Paul St #404, Brookline, MA 02446, USA; Laurie_Rosenblatt@dfci.harvard.edu

      “Diamonds [can be] made from carbon captured during the cremation process…”

      Chicago Tribune August 20, 2002.

      You say it can be done. You tell me

      anyone can sparkle

      for a price. Ashes refined

      then crushed in the final hug that makes you a star; a diamond to be worn

      in navel, tongue, or nipple. You,

      who threw yourself down—In abandon?

      For love?—refuse to …

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