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MY DEATH BEGAN

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Last night, like a new cause, my death began.

I met the past, the days ahead without me.

Began as I stalked through the pass of love.

I saw my leaving. Not as it once was: hook!

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(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

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