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Two more poems.

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This one came after a long
late-at-night discussion

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of what one would want
to say as one was dying.

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I have a poem based
on the superstition

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that the last thing you
see as you die you'll

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see through eternity.

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And I guess I must also believe
that the last words that you

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say, you'll listen to
yourself all through eternity.

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Last Words.

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"Let us consider last words.

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Goeth'e's more
light, for instance.

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Or Gertrude Stein sly
to the end asking,

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but what is the question?

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Consider the fishermen caught
on the hook of his own death

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who saves his last
words for the sea.

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Consider the miner, the
emblem of earth on his face,

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who curses the earth as he
enters it mineshaft all brave.

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I've heard the dry sound
leaves make on their way

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from the tree, have felt
the cold veil of snow

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as it melts in the hand.

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It is almost time to let
the curtain of darkness

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down on the perfect exit to
say one last time a few loved

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names.

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Or else to go out and silence
like an anonymous star

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whose message, if there is
one, is light years away".

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