LIFE
LIFE EVER LASTING
Existential therapists say: All anxiety is about death
And since we are beings unto death (Heidegger)
this makes sense From the moment we are born
we are busy dying Beginning in adolescence brain
cells are jettisoned by the thousands
But the human Ego hell-bent upon survival has even
passed laws against dying In Texas a brain-dead pregnant
woman is being kept alive against her wishes
Whereas in Belgium legislation is underway to allow terminally
ill children to be euthanized no matter their age Ego grows
it’s conscience Who knows where this will lead
5 yr. old Malakhiwe Goniwe an imbangi (spiritual poet)
presides at births weddings & funerals He recently told his
mother: When I meet my Maker I’ll stop being afraid
It seems that one poet is free The other desperate to be read
clutches at immortality
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People live too long nowadays. I’ve lived too long.
I had a ten inch waist. Now I’m just wasted.
Anonymous
Winter 2014
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