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Elephants Can Not Plan Funerals

Elephants don't plan funerals though I seriously wish they would then dogs may weep in their quieter moments at some elephants death you know most black cats watch unaffected necessarily by nature vicious believing elephants might be exotic mountains in sad imaginary spaces But it's the elephants I need to mention a metaphor for humanity's blindness we'd all attend their interment out of civic duty and politeness.

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