who isn’t next?

Byron  Gates Jr
Author: Byron Gates Jr
Word Count: 44
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who isn’t next?

...and what are the words one uses to describe a compilation?, works from my entire life?, fifty years of carrying around a yellow pad?, fifty years of writing and rewriting, changing the words, as their meanings change for me?

These pieces are extracted from my book of prose, “50 truths and 50 lies, the first 50 years.” Available Here

who isn’t next? belongs to the following groups:

Masterpieces: Literary Workshop and WMG

if next really meant
what it seems to mean;

who would be next
since we all can’t be;

and how would you know it
before you were;

and would you have realized it
after you weren’t anymore.

who isn’t next?

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byron gates jr

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