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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”

- J.R.R. Tolkien, 

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

- John Donne

As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
“The breath goes now," and some say, “No,"

So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
‘Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.

Moving of the earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did and meant;
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.

Dull sublunary lovers’ love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.

But we, by a love so much refined
That our selves know not what it is,
Inter-assured of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.

Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion.
Like gold to airy thinness beat.

If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two:
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do;

And though it in the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.

Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like the other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.

There’s Only One Natural Death, and Even That’s Bedcide:

            For the post-mortem amusement of Richard Brigantine

- Edward Dorn

A B H O R E N C E S
November 10, 1984

Death by over-seasoning: Herbicide

Death by annoyance: Pesticide

Death by suffocation: Carbon monoxide

Death by burning: Firecide

Death by falling: Cliffcide

Death by hiking: Trailcide

Death by camping: Campcide

Death by drowning:       Rivercide

                                  Lakecide

                                  Oceancide

Death from puking: Curbcide

Death from boredom: Hearthcide

Death at the hands of the medical profession: Dockcide

Death from an overnight stay: Inncide

Death by suprise: Backcide

Death by blow to the head: Upcide

Death from delirious voting: Rightcide

Death from hounding: Leftcide

Death through war: Theircide & Ourcide

Death by penalty: Offcide

Death following a decision: Decide

from: Abhorrences, Copyright 1980.