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I DON’T KNOW
I DON’T KNOW

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell

At night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look out over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of our own dreams. There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner but only ever faintly - not setting down roots in any land or staying long enough to see the substratum of things; the outer limits would suffice.

Good Sign-Offs
by Meg Miller
1488 blocks • about 5 hours ago

And as I knew I would,
I was to go.

Time to say goodbye

Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.

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