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                                            Death Selves
                                  by Austin Daniel LaGrone

  Death sets in upon a man a thousand ways.
  I imagine the way it may take me
  and live it as though it were my own personal death.
  I try on my death selves
  as though they were shirts or pants.
  Each one of them may one day claim me
  and yet I own each of them.
  They are my death selves
  and I have come to them intimately.
  I drank with one just the other evening.
  My table is, as it were, full of them.
  They are my death selves
  and we often dine together.
  A merry occasion it is,
  each one takes a turn
  seizing a grip upon me.
  I try each on for size
  and wrestle it down for a kiss.
  I wear death selves upon my sleeves
  like cuffs of jade and bone.
  I am fond of them all.
  In my spare time
  I make room for more
  and shuffle them in like cards.
  They are my death selves
  and one, in particular, is growing quite fond of me.



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Death Selves is copyright 1998 by Austin Daniel LaGrone