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Passing

March 9, 2010
By Anonymous

What happens when someone dies?

Do they fly up


like an angel in the sky?
Or sink like a submarine-
and then burn?


Does it darken like the night?




Or thirst and hunger-

like the vampire fright?



Maybe it just freezes

like a stone statue.


Or does it haunt you?

Emulated from Harlem by Langston Hughes.


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