Let us laugh at death until our throats get sore.<\/p>\n
Let us row to Helgoland, an island<\/p>\n
with seven stone gates and seven stone angels<\/p>\n
blowing trumpets, or are they trombones,<\/p>\n
the slide of God\u2019s left shoulder<\/p>\n
announcing the cessation of time,<\/p>\n
the end of the known world, as he unhitches the cables<\/p>\n
holding Earth in place and lets it drift off into space.<\/p>\n
Hello\/good-by. Quickly now<\/p>\n
before our names drawn in the sand<\/p>\n
are washed away. The sky, dying in your arms,<\/p>\n
is threatening rain. Tiredness now<\/p>\n
and breath with nowhere to climb, but up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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