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Even the flowers were dead…

Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.24.2018

Your daughter

There are some photographic things I almost always do: walk around back, look inside. And read what’s been left. This tomb had a rain-battered copy of King Lear, opened just as you see it here.

These tombs generally have many people buried in them, so I am making assumptions about the relevance of on of the lines in the open page. It says, “Your daughter is not well.”

Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.24.2018

Destitute Orphan Boys

Maybe one of the things New Orleans is most famous for are its cemeteries, which have above-ground tombs. You can imagine that I’d get in a cemetery visit or two while I was in town, and so I headed over to this one early one morning.

(Outside the gates, there was a man selling bottled water. It was, he said, the cheapest water in town. A travel tip from me to you.)

Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.24.2018