”Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I have a call.”

Read the entire poem, “Lady Lazarus”, here.

More in “A Rite of Passage”:

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Memorial Music: “Kettering” by The Antlers
• “If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”
• It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.