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No death outside my immediate family has left me more bereft. No death in my lifetime has hurt poets more.
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Is there a life before death? That's chalked up
In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain,
Coherent miseries, a bite and sup,
We hug our little destiny again.
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And found myself thinking: if it were nowadays,
This is how Death would summon Everyman.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
David Mamet
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Born:
April 13, 1939
Died:
August 30, 2013
(aged 74)
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