William Harding left a condolence for Alain Roullier

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In Memory of

Alain A.
Roullier

2015

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William Harding

A couple of days fter visiting Alain for the last time on May 11, I drove home to Maine through the back roads of Vermont. I passed through the Green Mountains amid the clouds and the sunshine and the spring showers. I stopped at a little graveyard by the Bennington Church where Robert Frost is buried to read his Epitaph: “I had a Lover’s Quarrel with the World” Alain had a Love Affair with the World I wondered what Alain’s epitaph might have been? (He wouldn’t have wanted one.) Then I saw the epitaph of a man who lived and died during the 1700’s. His gravestone had a quote from Shakespeare inscribed: “…..make dust our paper and with Rainy Eyes write 'Sorrow' in the Bosom of the Earth.” Too flouncy for Alain. I drove on, and passed a little church With a GLBT rainbow flag And a marquee reading: “God is Still Speaking”. Hmmm. An ambiguous message On many levels To many different audiences. As I drove on, I thought of Alain. I don’t want to feel sad, but I do; Sad: because Alain will not be part Of my future But only my past. Alain: what would your epitaph be, If you were to have one? There is nothing more to say.

Thursday May 14, 2015 at 3:47 pm

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