Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. <p><strong>For a Historian, Dying Young</strong></p> <p>in memory of Roy Rosenzweig, 1950-2007</p> <pre> By a pond, by a hospital, a bird, feathers as starched and white as nurses' uniforms used to be, stalks a muddy bank in red high heels. Down into the muck of Florida go eight scarlet inches of decurved beak as if, tired of the clay that passes for food in the afterlife, an ibis has stepped from a frieze in some young pharaoh's tomb to feed. Past a pool of ketchup where a French fry fell, beak and claw leave their marks in mud. Herodotus, father of history, father of lies, if you're the thin shade under a palm tree across the water, tell me a story that doesn't end with my reading in the Times today that emptiness sits at a desk in Virginia where Roy should be. No longer does his computer glow and thrum: let the tree frogs of Arlington take note. Let a crow call us to preen our black feathers. Down leaf-littered sidewalks, down streets that sag under the names of long-dead presidents-- is that Death the worker making his way in sober suit? A crumpled page, a fallen leaf--gone too soon, the labor historian, late of Lincoln Street. </pre> <p>--Debora Greger</p> <p>I shared an office with Deborah in her first and my only year at Mason. By the spring of that year, there was mention on her part of someone she was seeing, someone who sometimes came to town. We all know who that turned out to be! And how we all miss him.</p> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 143 Title A name given to the resource Elegy for Roy Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Debora Greger Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Debora Greger Type The nature or genre of the resource Document elegy greger poem roy