{"id":184602,"date":"2023-01-13T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=184602"},"modified":"2023-01-13T17:59:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:59:10","slug":"lisa-marie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=184602","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Marie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI was literally just there. I don\u2019t know why, because I should have anticipated it, but I was somehow not prepared to see Benjamin\u2019s big stone grave, added to the meditation garden, directly across the little pool from his grandfather’s grave. There were fresh flowers on top, blazing bright in the cold grey morning. I knew<\/i> Benjamin was there, but I had forgotten. It just stopped me in my tracks.<\/p>\n

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\nI felt this weird piercing pain when I saw Benjamin’s tomb. Grief was tangible in the air. It’s not my grief – it\u2019s not my family – and so this is not about my feelings, but the place itself resonated with loss and pain, in a way that felt fresh and new. There are no words. <\/p>\n

from “Lights Out” by Lisa Marie Presley<\/p>\n

You were a million miles behind
\nAnd I was crying every time I’d leave you
\nThen I didn’t want to see you
\nI still keep my watch two hours behind.
\nSomeone turned the lights out there in Memphis
\nOoh, that’s where my family’s buried and gone
\nLast time I was there I noticed a space left
\nNext to them there in Memphis
\nIn the damn back lawn<\/p>\n

“I still keep my watch two hours behind” is such a good line.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s always been a space in the family plot for Lisa Marie. A patch of grass beside the others. I just can\u2019t believe she would need it so soon. <\/p>\n

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