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Sometimes when I sit in a dull meeting

I think of my deathbed

But strangely enough

I do so without sentiment—

I was always sub-rosa

Like tea in a glass;

Whispered, savored alone;

That’s what it is, I think

To be graphein of body

A jigger’s worth of mind …

S.K.

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[Ken Smith]

Emily Dickinson Takes a Meeting

Because I had not penciled in,
Death penciled in for me.
The meeting held but just ourselves
And took Eternity.