It has to be "Angelas Ashes" especially since I was there at the time and the "blind woman with the radio" was my Grandmother and the woman who sees him in the yard in his Grandmothers dress was my Aunt, now both passed over and sadly missed.
Kendall, the last couple of verses of "the Rubaiyat" are so intense aren't they? I had to do a speech at a friends funeral last July and was going to do the "turn down an empty glass" ones and when I read them aloud to get the rhythm I knew I wouldn't be able to do it in public, I just dissolved.