our time on earth is absurdly brief

think like a field hand but act like a thief


enjoy the food and drink you crave

absorb your lover's flesh and its sweetness save


live under the blazing blue sky

doze in the summer field warm and dry


and when night falls be vivid and awake

before stars descend your soul to take




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