‘If a poet falls in love with you,
you can never die,’
I read somewhere.
But what if he burns his art, O foolish stranger?
What if he burns his poems?
Isn't that the most painful
kind of death there is?
You get a small taste of immortality,
before you're stripped of it;
before you're forced into being a simple
mortal,
who'll never be
remembered by anyone,
all over again.
I see nothing worse than that.