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poetry of jesse wilesready
getting ready to die isn't just for hospices
it also isn't morbid or depressing it's useful intelligent and honest
go inside the heart space make elaborate and ornate decorative use of its pliant edges
we're always dying this seeping nostalgia that youth it's already gone
not so strange then to practice letting go now