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Eulogy for a Snail

  • Writer: Nic
    Nic
  • Apr 6, 2020
  • 1 min read

Death knows all creatures,

even the small and the armored,

the mother among fish, the one-

footed and thick-shelled. Death

sees the kid with a ritual box,

cardboard for the earth, a new

home for a brief friend who has

come to know death in turn.

 
 
 

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