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EPITAPH ON A MADMAN'S GRAVE by MORRIS GILBERT

First Line: THE TIME HAD COME TO KILL HIMSELF, HE SAID
Last Line: THE WAY HE USED TO DO WHEN HE WAS FIVE.
Subject(s): DEATH; EPITAPHS; DEAD, THE;
The time had come to kill himself, he said,
Because at night he couldn't run and dive
Into a pool of sleep heels over head
The way he used to do when he was five.



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