How perfect to be aboard a ship with maybe a hundred years … - Mary Oliver

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How perfect to be aboard a ship with
maybe a hundred years still in my pocket.
But it's late, for all of us,
and in truth the only ship there is
is the ship we are all on
burning the world as we go.

Mary Oliver

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Mary Jane Oliver (10 September 1935 – 17 January 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

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How shall I go on, with my introspective and ambitious life?

Why should I have been surprised?
Hunters walk the forest
without a sound.
The hunter, strapped to his rifle,
the fox on his feet of silk,
the serpent on his empire of muscles — all move in a stillness,
hungry, careful, intent.
Just as the cancer
entered the forest of my body,
without a sound.

I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.

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