13,794. TO DO JUSTICE WITH THE LIVING, ONE MUST FIRST KNOW THE DEAD

 TO DO JUSTICE WITH THE 

LIVING, ONE MUST FIRST 

KNOW THE DEAD

This is not necessarily a five-star hotel,

a Michelin-Guide mark, a gatepost to

somewhere else  -  it may be anywhere,

and it may be at all. We live to remark

on the breathing we do.

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With lust and vigor, it seems, people go at

things harmlessly. But haphazardly too?

I've heard stories of the funerals where

the living-dead start wailing, yet the other

dead say nothing back  at all. It's a lid we

close forever; experience enthralled.

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Here is a bit of skylight, still seeping in

though some contractor claims now it's

been all sealed up. That's what you get

from agreeing with such a pup. Dry,

dead limbs that fall from trees, they

hit the ground, hopelessly.