The Art of Dying

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I don’t know how to die

although my father and his father

and his mother before him 

managed the trick

and all without special training 

so I expect when the wheel spins around

I’ll know how to swing it

to shuffle off the coil

manageably well

just as they did

but what if I don’t?

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