Before she was a death spirit the banshee
Was a washerwoman so, as a professional,
She glanced at the hospital sheets on the bed
Where Max was taking his time dying. "Pfoo," she said
(In Galitzianer Yiddish, though Max had, over the years.
Picked up a fair amount of Gaelic) "a speckled hen
Would feel shame dying in such ill-washed sheets;
Wait you here -- I'll have a word with them in the laundry."
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