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Death & Mortality
Cemetery
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The Tortured Poets Department · 2024
“Killing time at the cemetery"; "never quite buried"; "you can't put them to rest”
The cemetery and burial imagery establishes the relationship as something that haunts rather than ends cleanly. Uncle Jerry explicitly uses the word 'haunting': 'there are times when you think about old relationships and you just can't put them to rest — they haunt you.' He also connects the cemetery to the Black Dog, which in folklore haunts cemeteries. Distinct from M001 (Ghosts), which captures spectral presences; this motif is about the experience of being haunted — the persistence of memory that cannot be buried.
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