Sunday, December 13, 2020

Pandemic Lesson #39

 No one lives forever.

Life is sacred, at least in the abstract. But living is so profane, riven with fluids, pain, and spasms. Death rules all fates, no matter our wealth or vanity. No ice chambered  brain, no decoded digital memory sponge will preserve this moment in your ballooning ego. Everything flickers out. You flicker. Out.

You are on your own now. Sleep tight, butterfly.

Head on, gracefully

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