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Article: from: The Book of the Dead Man.(Poem)
- Article from:
- The Southern Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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from: The Book of the Dead Man
Live as if you were already dead.
--ZEN ADMONITION
I About the Dead Man and Time
When the dead man rises from bed, time smiles.
Time itself snickers at the dead man rising from bed.
The chortling sounds in bells and buzzers, radio whispers, sunshine
fizzing in the leaves, the wheat and corn rustling from near and
far,
the ten thousand things to be remembered.
The clock face laughs at his ache to be active, as the moon laughs
at his
lethargy, his ennui, his apathy, his teetering between means and
ends.
The dead man is the liquid that stained the antique veneer.
He is private.
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