Death and Other Passions

Death is like all my passions

I look forward to until it’s upon me

then paralyze with fear of regret:

Wasn’t there more I meant to do before

the ultimate surrender?


Then my solace is knowledge of the inevitable

there will always be more

but that doesn’t change the enough,

one side’s loss is the other’s relief.

Now it’s my turn to carry consciousness

like water of the universe sloshing over

a cup of flesh called Jeffree

that may hold for 80 years, pray no longer,

every crack leaking to the next tier.

Lap up kids, while the cascade lasts

think up some good questions, muster your patience,

and I’ll try to answer.

It’ll be your fall after you want it.

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