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Obituary

March 25, 2015
By Sundance PLATINUM, Northampton, Massachusetts
Sundance PLATINUM, Northampton, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
-Shakespeare


I read the obits
At a young age.

I'm researching
My chances of living.

Numbers become possibilities
And I circle the oldest.

I read of their lives
Their accomplishments.

I plan my own obituary
A conclusion of my life

Imagine all that I will have
And leave behind

I give myself a number of names
And schools and jobs

Of volunteer hours
And children of children.

Bury me with my obituary.
Give the poet her conclusion.



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