Oh my aching bones, L. Felt there. I didnt know he lived to be 103...
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On Sep 10, 2014, at 6:41 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I am now almost without energy.
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> Sometimes I twitch! Even walk a little.
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> But then I'm like an ageing pet, spending
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> much of its life resting or quite asleep.
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> I say I'm well, lying in my own dirt,
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> keeping the truth hidden by camouflage.
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> I am without address or voice; will less;
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> no more than light upon a rock, a glint
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> without the power of a spark, flameless
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> yet self-consuming; that which might have been -
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> as leaves may roll themselves, fall, crumble
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> to dust, not even knowing combustion
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Douglas Barbour
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