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Is Dying Ugly?

Member since 2004 · Posted 17 Jan 2006 · 6 comments

Is dying beautiful? Is dying rich And is it fair? Will better dead dolls Sit and wonder what it's like To live and to love and to perish? To care? Is dying strong? Is wondering whether It is Or it isn't The point? Dying is dying Dying is plain Dying is being born I believe And I hope for all worth doing so That dying is ugly For if it is I wouldn't wonder much.

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[3] cyan9 18-Jan-06/9:34 AM Reply

You have put such minimal thought into this poem, and such minimal effort into making it a poem.

[5] Dovina 18-Jan-06/11:22 AM Reply

The concluding lines don't make sense.

[6] ALChemy 19-Jan-06/1:07 PM Reply

"Dying is easy. Comedy is hard." --The last dying words of Sir Donald Wolfit after one of his young actors said to him: "Sir Donald, after a life so filled with success and fame, dying must be hard"

[6] ALChemy › ALChemy 19-Jan-06/2:10 PM Reply

Other last words:
"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do." ~~ Oscar Wilde, writer.

"I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record..." ~~ Dylan Thomas, poet.

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." (Killed in battle during US Civil War.) ~~ General John Sedgwick

"Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough." (To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.) ~~ Karl Marx

[7] zodiac 19-Jan-06/2:19 PM Reply

If you're drunk and horny, dying looks alright, I guess.

[2] Edna Sweetlove 15-May-06/4:39 PM Reply

Not my taste, babe.