SUITCASE "Check his belongings," the solicitor said. They were in a suitcase, Twenty-four inches by twenty. Ninety-one years of life Covered a corner of the kitchen table Everything! Childhood - photographed with mother. Youth - 1932, Galway Championship Football medal. A signet ring - Romance? Middle-age fling - binoculars; a smart pair. Spectacles of age, every lens stronger. Watches that had told each minute of his single life. Letters remindful of events, A Treasury of the Sacred Heart Of contemporaries consigned to clay And a cutting from a newspaper - A poem about loneliness. -- Padraic O'Farrell, "The Leitrim Guardian" 1997