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Created on: February 16, 2007 Last Updated: May 14, 2007

Benson and Hedges
Gift-wrapped in summer's gold leaf;
I shall die happy.

Haiku is my favorite form of poem, and it lends itself to the subject of death like no other. This, however, is me being flippant, during my daft student days when one more witicism was preferable to actually stopping drinking and doing some serious work. And so I cam out with a miserable Desmond. C'est la vie, such as it is...

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