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Posture and primp

All the way to the grave

To delusions of relevance

We are enslaved

Golden apparitions

Beguile and disguise

The terrible absurdity

Of being alive

Paralyzing impermanence

Paralyzing impermanence

Not so much “here”

As molecular happenstance

We cry and we cheer,

A mimetic, performative dance

Soured by the awareness,

No matter how slight,

Of the terrible absurdity

Of being alive

Paralyzing impermanence

Paralyzing impermanence

To live, in spite of death

To live, in spite of dying

To live at all