-55- Have some Herrick

[inhumandog]

Consider those of innocent minds, this advice once given.

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a flying:
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.

Dying. Not dead. Not alive. Dying. In the process of death. We can deviate from the rest of the poem to this one particular point that, admittedly, is quite off topic, but

Comments

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[heavenonthemind]

Why do you even read poetry?

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[inhumandog]

I enjoy it. It gives me things to think about.

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[heavenonthemind]

Depressing things.

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[inhumandog]

It's not depressing. It's...interesting.

incoming bitchery

[darknessb4me]

Seeing as every single inmate here is already dead, this is completely irrelevant. Congratulations.

He LAUGHS at your bitchery

[inhumandog]

Who said I was talking about inmates?

[peektuttut]

From the moment we're born, we begin to die.

You'll give yourself an existential crisis, thinking like that.

After he's had time to look up what that means!

[inhumandog]

I'm quite sure that's already happened.

[peektuttut]

That's unfortunate. You won't get anywhere if you sit around questioning the point.

[inhumandog]

Who are you to lecture me?

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[impure_tale]

I have.

[Private]

[inhumandog]

And?

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[impure_tale]

You understand my apprehension to do with the matter?

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[inhumandog]

Yes, but I feel that I have not done anything since returning to warrant it. I actually believe I have done only what you've asked of me.