BY DAVIDMURRAYLAW@GMAIL.COM

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Endgame

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Painting by Anna Swerts, on Instagram at annamjswerts 

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When I go to bed

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what’s left in my head

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has been dead

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for two or three hours

 

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This is not to say

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that my day

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has been without play

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or reflection

 

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Yet, solitude places a weight

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around one’s fate

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bringing the date

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of the end, closer.