"The Lament Of The Second"

The grief-stricken man threw himself at the
grave and cried bitterly, "My life, oh how
senseless is it! How worthless this carcass
about me, because you are gone. If only you
had lived, if only fate had not been so cruel
as to take you from this world, how everything
would have been different!"

A clergyman nearby overheard him and said,
"I assume the person lying beneath this
mound of earth was someone of great
importance to you."

"Importance? Indeed it was," wept the man.
"It's my wife's first husband!"