Sunday, October 16, 2022

15,706. BEFORE I GO DOWN

BEFORE I GO DOWN
Tell the Doctor my fingers are
all now growing equally long.
See what he says about that. Ask
him again if I should drink water 
standing up, or did he say 'drink 
up standing water' - which is the 
way I remember, but it makes 
little sense. If I'm still here, I'll
listen to your answer.
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Malcolm Muggeridge? Not him
again! I got tired of all that stuff
the first time around. Dame Edith?
No, please, same thing with her.
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Do you not understand how I
have loved everyone I've ever met;
even those I didn't take to. This
life is brusque, and brutal, closing
up. Love, on the other hand, does
represent inclusion and expansion.
Good things, both.
I stand.

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