Actually, Jean Genet's original gravestone was only up for a week and somebody stole part of it, and it's never been recovered.
Human remains and gravestones periodically turn up around New York, and some estimate there are thousands of dead beneath the city.
Officials did not know when the macabre feature was installed, but said they had found cut up gravestones in Davies' back garden.
In the postwar years, I often put up gravestones in cemeteries while working as a stonemason, and once made a deal with a gravedigger: five Lucky Strikes for a good dozen hand-forged coffin nails; later, much later, they appeared as rusty assemblages in drawings, lying this way and that, a few crooked, each with its own shape.
Or more bizarrely, one cemetery in Shenyang has even proposed using QR codes on gravestones to call up people's obituaries.
It doesn't matter how many buildings are burnt, how much property is appropriated, how many gravestones are smashed up and turned into the soil.
While it wasn't without its cringy moments, it also wasn't Hollyoaks, where characters got "addicted" to weed and smashed up gravestones; it was as close as any show had come to representing how teenagers really use drugs.
His name was struck from Plath's gravestone, and writers lined up for the defence or the prosecution.
Except for the part where Ricky picks up a gravestone from the churchyard, hits me over the head, knocks me out and puts me in a coma.
Near the rusting, abandoned steelworks perched on a hill overlooking the forlorn north-eastern town of Gandrange, trade unionists put up a gravestone inscribed: "Here lie the broken promises of Nicolas Sarkozy". The French president, fresh from his whirlwind marriage to Carla Bruni in 2008, had vowed that the state would save the factory and he would come back to help.
