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“It’s really chickenshit. You’ve just decided you’re going to live here. I could do it too. I could just say, ‘Fuck it, I quit.’ It’s better than killing yourself. No one’s angry at you. They keep feeding you your drugs and feeling sorry for you. And you just keep on crying like that. But no one feels sorry for us.”
Gone From My Sight", also known as the "Parable of Immortality" and "What Is Dying" is a poem (or prose poem) presumably written by the Rev. Luther F. Beecher (1813–1903), cousin of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. At least three publications credit the poem to Luther Beecher in printings shortly after his death in 1904. [1]
If one interprets this according to Christian scripture, the poem imagines an afterlife most similar to the book of Revelation. First life stops following death, but, à la Revelation, we only encounter eternity at time's end (by way of resurrection and last judgment).
In 1835, he ran away from his indenture, stowing away on a ship bound for Mobile, Alabama. [1] Upon discovery, he was adopted into the crew and trained in navigation, becoming a steamboat pilot by the age of sixteen. [1] While serving in the end of the Second Seminole War in 1842, he met Mifflin Kenedy, [2] who would later become his partner. [1]
Richard John Price (born 1966 in Reading, England) [1] is a British poet, novelist, and translator. From 1988 to 2024 he was a librarian at the British Library, London. From 1988 to 2024 he was a librarian at the British Library, London.
Richard Joseph Howard (October 13, 1929 – March 31, 2022), [1] adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz, was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland , Ohio, and was a graduate of Columbia University , where he studied under Mark Van Doren , [ 2 ] and where he was an emeritus professor.
Kell began writing poetry at the age of ten, and at eighteen achieved newspaper publication with his now widely known poem 'Pigeons'. Since then his work has appeared in magazines, anthologies, and sixteen solo collections large and small (see bibliography). [citation needed] Until 1995 Kell also wrote a small amount of music.
Richard L. Kenney (born 1948) is a poet and professor of English at the University of Washington. He is the author of five books of poetry: The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, Orrery, The Invention of the Zero, The One-Strand River, and Terminator.