SoMa Literary Review

Reed

By Bruce Machado

To achieve total passivity

Is almost the easiest thing one can imagine.

#1: Don’t fear dying unexpectedly

#2: Don’t fear dying painfully

#3: Don’t fear dying slowly

#4: Don’t fear dying untimely

#5: Don’t fear dying elderly

#6: Don’t fear dying rapidly

#7: Don’t fear dying horrifically

#8: Don’t fear dying lonely

#9: Don’t fear dying anonymously

#10: Don’t fear dying infamously

#11: Don’t fear dying treacherously

#12: Don’t fear dying ridiculously

Everyone dies somehow

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Bruce Machado is a MFA student in the Writing and Consciousness Program at New College of California, San Francisco. He lives in Santa Rosa.