The
ghosts of Lemberg are putting on an opera
My
grandmother Esther -- who worked as a teenager
In
a cigarette factory -- urges them to do Carmen.
For
days her ghost, who looks to be about 15,
Has
been looking sidelong at the other ghosts
And
lounging provocatively on gravestones
In
the cemetery where she isn't buried.
Her
sister Irina, though, feels Nabucco
Might
be a better first production.
She
also laughs every time she sees Esther
With
the shadow of a rose between her teeth.
While
deciding, the ghosts -- unable
To
rent the city's opera house --are renovating
The
one that wasn't built, following the plans
The
town council rejected in 1896.
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