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I'm afraid of death  
by Kathleen Ossip

  I’m afraid of death
because it inflates
the definition
of what a person 
is, or love, until
they become the same, 
love, the beloved,
immaterial.

I’m afraid of death
because it invents
a different kind of
time, a stopped clock
that can’t be reset,
only repurchased,
an antiquity.

I’m afraid of death,
the magician who
makes vanish and who
makes odd things appear 
in odd places—your 
name engraves itself
on a stranger’s chest
in letters of char.
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