Descriptive Essay
I can hear the distant moans of a cold engine as it crawls up the frozen, black asphalt of the color-less cemetery road. I can see, in the distance, the faint yellow lights of the hearse, as it peers over the rolling humps of the road, and makes it�s way through the thick damp fog. As the car approaches its headlights stare me down as a lion would stare down its prey. I listen to the sound of crunching fall leaves as the weighted down hearse tramples over them with its soiled tires. The blackened windows of the shinny hearse stop in front of me, and the door closest to me is thrust open. A long, slender leg, covered with a black see-through stocking, steps onto the frost-bitten earth ...
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the frozen handles of the coffin are reluctantly grasped by the eight men in black trousers with brilliant brass buttons. I watch without blinking, as the mysterious woman fallows the men in rhythmic step towards the grave yard. Sounds of marching and bristling leaves pass through my wind scorched ears. The coffin that is so gracefully carried is, in the same manner, placed on the taunt, yellow straps of the frost covered, casket lowering, platform.
A tall, and grossly thin man approaches from behind the wall of grief-stricken relatives. The pale flesh of his face hangs tightly to his definite cheek bones. His eyes are hidden behind the purple bags protruding from under his sunken eyes. He is dressed in an all black attire with the exception of a small, white, square on his collar, directly bellow his jaw. He begins to preach in a low, silence shattering voice. I can hear the voice, but I don�t listen because I focus on a high-pitched squelch, produced from rusted wheels as ...
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