Saturday, March 7, 2009
The Meaning of Death
A murder of rows passed by my bed, I said, "Excuse me, could one of you please tell me the meaning of death?" One fell silent while the rest laughed louder. I grew tired trying to decipher the cackles and the quiet and I fell asleep, dreaming of myself falling through a world full of laughter, neither with me nor at me, but I awoke to the sound of the silent bird's wings and smiled, because I never hit the ground.
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i read this at 5 am with birds chirping outside of my window.
ReplyDeletei hope that places you...some how, with what i felt.
this made a lot of sense to me. i think it's really really great steve.
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