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We Sleep When We Die

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Myles Saitta
We Sleep When We Die

We sleep when we die 
A bet which we lost 
To prosper is a fine 
For to live is the cost

Survival is enslavement 
A truth likely to bother 
So don’t show any lament
Or You’ll be knocked over
 

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Afterlife Death
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Kimmy Alan

Profound poetic perspective on death.

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