Clockwise Cat Strikes Back

and grey old age.
That is why I say faith can grasp
the meaning of our life and turn it
upside down.
That is why I say you have to be ready
before that.
Three Perplexed Notes
Is there any irrefutable evidence that we really die, save for
the termination of all biological functions that sustain the living
organisms? What if death, having failed to knock, just bursts in
and demands to take you away? I look at the yellow and blue
bird on the windowsill awash in light. Who knows for sure.
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The dodo bird peers at us from the paintings as a warning for
something that inevitably will happen. Today’s birds twitter
sadder songs. O, sing to me, Whitman…
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The child’s tears, like shiny Koh-­‐i-­‐Noors, fall right through
the ground as if it were nothing.