It’s just not fair, is
it? A respected
Judge, pillar of the community,
friend to all the right
people, a man who
spent his lifetime upholding the law,
seeing wrong punished,
virtue rewarded.

So why am I buried here with no
marker of all my
great accomplishments
while that drug addict Michael Ely
gets a headstone of
Italian marble?

There is no justice in Spoon River.