was painted on a gigantic wooden sign that stood over the entrance to the four-acre plot that Undertaker had cleared with his own hands of every branch, rock, and corpse-eating groundhog. If not flat, the cemetery, which was fenced in all around with low stone walls, at least had the look of a real graveyard, with rows of tombstones made of larger rocks rolled into place above each grave and epitaphs sprayed on them in Day-Glo paint from aerosal cans that Undertaker had chanced to find a whole crate of. “A suffering man lies here” “I died ’cause my woman lied.” “Avenge me, Martha.” “I left this world a cleaner place than I found it.” “I killed Tommy Shefrin, his brother killed me.” These and numerous other footnotes of the dead were written in a graffitilike scrawl over every three- to five-foot-high piece of rectangular-shaped rocks over the plots.
