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“when he heard the death rattle, gilgamesh moaned/like a dove. his face grew dark. ‘beloved,/wait, don’t leave me. dearest of men,/don’t die, don’t let them take you from me.’”
— Jan 14, 2021 01:11AM
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“...suddenly, savagely, death/destroys us, all of us, old or young./and yet we build houses, make contracts, brothers/divide their inheritance, conflicts occur—/as though this human life lasted forever./the river rises, flows over its banks/and carries us all away, like mayflies/floating downstream: they stare at the sun,/then all at once there is nothing.”
— Jan 14, 2021 01:41PM
