mortician

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: A person whose business is preparing dead bodies for burial or cremation and making arrangements for funerals.

Source: Oxford Dictionary

Found in the line 3  of stanza 11 on “Puerto Rican Obituary” by Pedro Pietri

When morticians have job, it means somebody is dead. On this poem, this means those Puerto Ricans have an unsecured life.

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