- They stood beneath the stars, among the crowd.
- And, although they were pale and dead, they still blended in.
- “You’d think,” they thought,
- “that being dead would give you an advantage.”
- They were finding, instead,
- that human beings can hide things from the dead.
- Their material bodies were like dense pockets;
- no matter how much groping, nothing could be grasped.
- They were finding that the living
- had to want the dead to see them,
- not the other way round.