The ghosts of Lemberg are putting on an opera
My grandmother -- who once worked
In a cigarette factory -- urges them to do Carmen.
For days her ghost, who looks to be about 15,
Has been looking sideways at other ghosts
And lounging provocatively on gravestones
In the cemetery where she isn't buried.
Her sister Irina, though, thinks Nabucco
Might be a better first production.
With no money they've been unable
To rent the opera house so are renovating
The one that wasn't built, following plans
Rejected by the Council in 1896.
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