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Epitaph

Tom Merrill

“Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs....”—PL

Too long it had only been for this
that he slogged through each duplicate day:

to sink so deep into sleep
that no trespass of any perception

could make his escape incomplete;
only for perfect vacancy,

space with no inner sense,
a truly out-of-touch retreat,

with no chance or threat of intrusion—
no memory, no thought, no night-borne illusion.

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