the worst day
‘and on that bombshell!’ you would say as you left to teach
on a provocative note
channeling Alan Partridge
.
people forget how funny you were
.
each year you get further and further away
you are everywhere
not you
.
the ghost you were in life
the flame deepset
the quickmind
concatenating
the war against inertia
.
The word lemur means "ghost" in the native language. There were taboos against killing them, and Mission had imposed an article that prohibited the killing of ghosts, on penalty of expulsion from the settlement. If any crime deserved the death penalty, also prohibited under the articles, then this was that crime.
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and everybody wonders what you would have made of this or that
you at 50, 60
.
the darkness only ever comes from outside
if you come to see it
a certain way
it is hard to remember
.
and I know that you say not to be sad
when we are outside
paying homage to the philosophers
but we are still here
and you are in fields, dreaming of the festival
in time, in time the clock will stop
and life will begin