Darkness

Dying/Dead? Zinnia

 

 

My candle burns at neither end

It lasts too many nights;

Oh, my friends, and oh, my foes

I miss it’s lovely light. 

 

~Marion, with apologies to Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

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"Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation." ~Tennessee Williams, "The Rose Tattoo"

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