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this is a special way of being afraid
no trick dispels. religion used to try,
that vast, moth-eaten musical brocade
created to pretend we never die,
and specious stuff that says no rational being
can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing
that this is what we fear - no sight, no sound,
no touch or taste or smell, nothing to think with,
nothing to love or link with,
the anasthetic from which none come round.
- philip larkin
a 14 year old understood.
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a friend just finished up an apartment she intends to rent. i jumped at the chance to shoot the emptiness.
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©2010 helen sotiriadis
