#death

"Somalia Haiku For a Somalian, heaven's drawing water from a well in an earthen pot."

"I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it."

"As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight."

"having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor."

"This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot."

"Kill Buddha's Hairdresser [10w] I'd like to meet Buddha's hairdresser and shoot the prick."

"I inherited a pound from my British uncle. I’d have rather gotten a dollar, because what do I want with an animal shelter?"

"Prolific [10w] "Perhaps I'm prolific because I believe creativity can forestall death."

"Hello Poetry Needs Y'allz How empty the oceans would be were it only filled with orcas."

"Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance"

"The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?"

"Does Ziploc make body bags? I’ll bet the corpses would stay fresher for longer if they did."

"The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive"

"This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness."

"I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more..."

"Please don't die."

"I had a dream about you. Flowers were overflowing in the cemetery, so we decided to have a picnic there. You brought apple pie, and I brought my Aunt Mildred, who’d been dead for some time and I just hadn’t gotten around to disposing of her body. I thought you’d think me both efficient and romantic, but it turns out you didn’t. You only saw the romantic side of my action."

"Poetry and Love [10w] Poetry and love are two faces of the same coin."

"Dead. Never been that before. Not even once."

"Leaps of Faith [10w] Like religion, leaps of faith are behind all idealistic movements."