The Livin' End

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The simplicity of life
In youth,
Superb!
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Moses' tablets
Carved in stone
Were will'o'wisp to
Steel engraved laws:
Mine own.
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And being mine,
No confusion - doubts - or fears
Were known.
But joy?
Heav'n Forfend!
The Livin' End
Too dark to contemplate.
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And now
At Seven Five and more
While in the wings, ajar,
Death's dark door;
I dance in glee
On steel engraved floor.
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Plot and plan
With unconcealed spite
What arthritic limbs
And wicked mind
Can plot for my delight.
The Livin' End
Too bright to expiate.
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From Life's A Bitch by GeoE
September, 1994
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