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  • The Paris Review

    Billy Collins

    Mar 03, 2020 1 minute

    ON THE DEATHS OF FRIENDS

    Either they just dieor they get sick and die of the sicknessor they get sick, recover, then die of something else,or they get sick, appear to recover,then die of the same thing,the sickness coming backto take another bite out of youin the forest of your final hours.

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