Span
1940 — 1975.
That seems a short life
until you do the elementary math —
75 years.
That's a long time
to live with the certainty
of your death
as an unknown
and un-schedulable
appointment.
That seems a short life
until you do the elementary math —
75 years.
That's a long time
to live with the certainty
of your death
as an unknown
and un-schedulable
appointment.
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Author's Note
Prompted by a death notice in the New York Review of Books
Other stories by Gary Hardaway
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Really like this, Gary. ****
Unscheduled is the only way to go. Go as in form not practice?
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Fortunately we have Hollywood, drugs and religion--and a capacity for brute denial. *
Clever piece. The darkness at the end of the light. Especially like the shift in line breaks as the poem unfolds. Good one, Gary.
Appointment, what appointment. We're living forever, right?*
Thank you,Amanda, Rachna, James,
Matt, Sam, and Gary.
Ray Kurzweil does not approve of this poem. But I do. *
Stronger than the espresso I´m reading it with. Like it.
Thank you, Chris and Neil.
You put my recent thoughts into coherency.