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A funny end

Oct 6, 2018
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Death is a funny end,


threatening to close our biographies —


a plot twist no one edits.



Death is a funny end —


threatening to close our biographies


mid-sentence, mid-thought,


while we’re still revising the draft.



Death is a funny end.


It threatens to close our biographies,


but all it really does


is remind us


how many chapters we never finished.



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