When I Die Make My Statue Tall

Margaurita was always called challengingly short. In the afterliife I will be tall, she would retort. When I die, make my day-of-the-dead statue tall, she said. Give me a scary toothy face, and a huge, oversized head. We made this woman's statue twelve foot tall. Her face was long, she was no longer small. Do you think she knows? We asked each other. Honoring the best we could, our sainted grandmother.