Farewell, Jackie - Edward Klein

FAREWELL TO JACKIE, by Edward Klein A line of people silently entering the bedroom, wall were pale Lime green, the Bed is Coral red canopy , Books were everywhere The only other person in the room apart from the occupant of the Bed is a Nurse, keeping an eye on the Morphine drip. The last respects to the living offered by Bunny Mellon followed by Carly Simon, The CHANT (Alleluia, beatus vir qui suffert - Blessed is the Man who endures) is playing in the background and the people are filing 2 by 2 into the bedroom Ethel Kennedy, Pat Kennedy Lawford Eunice Shivers, Sargent Shivers, Jean Kennedy Smith, William Kennedy Ted Kennedy keeling beside the bed ...