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More To Be Pitied Than Revered

by Joseph McCombs


these isotopic tendencies of hearts:
their beats gradually fade into
half-lives of increasing impermanence

and some think this is a good thing.
change is good, change keeps us
going, change equals growth

unless you're a dissipating molecule
on this sad sphere & you've got
nowhere to go but down

into cell divisions of despair.

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This poem is reproduced with the permission of the author.
© Joseph McCombs.
last modified 26 January 1999