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you could wish you were dead before it’s too
late; that is, before the devices arrive with

their doctors or before the complications knot
up into stall: you could wish to slip away in

the cool of a late evening, a daiquiri in one
hand, the other up somebody’s thigh—all your

money in CDs, not with the MDs: if you
slip away you are merely gone from our time,

dear, dear, hour time, for there is no
time frame out there in eternity you should

swerve away from, too awesome to deal with from
our pitiably short perspectives: oh, no: all

you would be missing out on is a little more
business as usual, not, as you have probably

already noted a widely critical matter: still
a worm can be so tender on a new leaf that

just flicking it away ruins it, and you wouldn’t
want to risk anything too early: so, now mind

you, mind me and be still—or very certain: