The melody of death... Down at the edge of Mexican town, where the pavement gives out and the yellow dust drifts ankle deep over the hard packed adobe, a radio is moaning a dreamy beat into the night. It is the kind of music that needs two people, but only one is listening—a long legged blonde who keeps time to the music while brushing her glistening hair... She drops the brush and reaches for the tall glass that stands on the dressing table—and then she hesitates, peering into the blackness of the room beyond. There is no doubt about the sound... “Frank?” She stands up and moves through the doorway, the name still on her lips. And then she dies...horribly.

In Obits. a speaker tries and fails to write obituaries for those whose memorials are missing, those who are represented only as statistics. She considers victims of mass deaths, fictional characters, and her own aunt, asking what does it mean to be an 'I' mourning a 'you' when both have been othered? Centring vulnerability, the various answers to this question pass through trauma, depression, and the experience of being a mixed-race queer woman.

James Flow was born 9 March 1821 in North Carolina. He married Leah Malinda Long (1826-1905) 2 March 1846 in Union County, North Carolina. They had nine children. He died in 1877. David Flough was living in North Carolina by 1766. He may or may not be a relative of James Flow. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina.

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