from: The Book of the Dead Man.(Poem)

From: The Southern Review | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information 
 
from: The Book of the Dead Man 
 
Live as if you were already dead. 
--ZEN ADMONITION 
 
   I About the Dead Man and Time 
 
   When the dead man rises from bed, time smiles. 
   Time itself snickers at the dead man rising from bed. 
   The chortling sounds in bells and buzzers, radio whispers, sunshine 
       fizzing in the leaves, the wheat and corn rustling from near and 
        far, 
       the ten thousand things to be remembered. 
   The clock face laughs at his ache to be active, as the moon laughs 
    at his 
   lethargy, his ennui, his apathy, his teetering between means and 
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