A Flash In the Pan

embrace the utterly fleeting nature of your
existence
for within moments you will disappear
& all that you think matters now
all your 
plans
for future endeavors, for relationships, for trips & 
attempts at ascension within some kind of 
labor structure---
they all are reduced to the head of 
a
needle---
& as the smoke from that last obliterating fire
you’re whisked away by the
wind.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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