Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters Volume 4, Issues 1 & 2 | Page 54

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TIM MCLAFFERTY

We go to death with nothing in our hands
as if we could not, or cared
not to carry one thing from a house on fire.
What strange cargo, then: the self
but we wish it: enduring.
Strange indeed, that we append objects
with ruin, yet, in their lack, insist
a self from whom without they lie inert.

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