We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage / And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, / We Poets of the proud old lineage / Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why ... (James Elroy Flecker)
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12.6.26

Epitaph for Myself


I never got to be

a world-famous poet


but I did live 

to be 86 

(so far)


and that’ll 

do