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​TO THAT FOOL SENECA, ALWAYS RUNNING HIS MOUTH
​“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire” - Seneca
Well, yeah. Of course, we do. 
We don’t want to die.
 
But I think you’re confusing
immortality with procrastination.
 
No. To be immortal in desire
is to slowly savor every instant.
 
We exist in that long moment
between anticipation and
 
execution. Not the clothes
rumpled on the floor
 
but the fingers at each button
and clasp. Not the touch,
 
but the electricity
between bodies before
 
the touch. We don’t want to die
before the touch but live
 
in that long moment.
We don’t want to die before
 
all those long moments we see
stretched out ahead of us,
 
a line of pleasures to come.
so, we are cautious, yes,
 
in some ways. Slow to action,
but in slow action we find
 
immortality, unlike you, 
who’s quick death 
 
will mean nothing
and all your desires
 
never known, 
not truly.

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DISASTER
 
Of course it was a disaster.
All love ends in disaster 
of one kind or another - 
walking away or never
waking up. What did we expect? 
If it isn’t cancer, it will be
diabetes, stroke, bus,
lightning, blunt force trauma, 
heart break. There is no escape.
Maybe disaster is too strong
a word. Maybe we could have
seen it coming, but we were
too afraid to look. Maybe
It was too commonplace
for us to even notice, but
there it was, whatever it was,
the end of our love
coming closer all that time.
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