Thursday, August 17, 2023

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She was dying

   She was always dying

The newest and most original

   ailments kept coming

We took a bathos

   in her pathos

Until finally

   She passed

And on her tombstone,

   what else?

"I told them I was sick."

 

I think of death

   as a character flaw.

 

©️ 2023 Muriel Thumm 


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