Truly Alive

Michael Peach

One shouldn’t claim to be alive,
Unless one knows one has to strive.

Jerusalem
6 May 1999

Despite my declining Physical state, Increasing introspection And aversion to

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According to Ophelia’s lament, When Hamlet’s words have made her

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