Intro

When Machado died, according to Matea Monedero, “they had to take away the body by lifting it over the bed where mother Ana lay unconscious”. The poet was laid out for mourning in the next room. “Later he was shrouded in a bed sheet because that’s how José wanted it based on his interpretation of something Antonio said one day when speaking of the unnecessary pomp of some burials: ‘In order to bury a person, it is enough to wrap the body in a sheet’”.