Tuesday, November 5, 2019

BEING DEAD

(photo:  detail from a public poster) 



BEING DEAD

Is there such a state?

Anyway, it’s the easy part.

When you’re dead
it’s either better
or it’s not 

at all.

Being

that’s the hard part

alone

harder still

alone and poor

harder yet

to have
outlived
them all

hardest of all.

As if sorrow were a rock

adamantine

a mass of
bound
energy

pushing on itself

waiting for the precise tap
upon the fault to break the heart
to smithereens.


RW
Patzcuaro, Michuacan, Mex.
11.02.2019

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