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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351283" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Art Of Drowning</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wonder how it all got started, this business<br>about seeing your life flash before your eyes<br>while you drown, as if panic, or the act of submergence,<br>could startle time into such compression, crushing<br>decades in the vice of your desperate, final seconds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After falling off a steamship or being swept away<br>in a rush of floodwaters, wouldn't you hope<br>for a more leisurely review, an invisible hand<br>turning the pages of an album of photographs-<br>you up on a pony or blowing out candles in a conic hat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How about a short animated film, a slide presentation?<br>Your life expressed in an essay, or in one model photograph?<br>Wouldn't any form be better than this sudden flash?<br>Your whole existence going off in your face<br>in an eyebrow-singeing explosion of biography-<br>nothing like the three large volumes you envisioned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Survivors would have us believe in a brilliance<br>here, some bolt of truth forking across the water,<br>an ultimate Light before all the lights go out,<br>dawning on you with all its megalithic tonnage.<br>But if something does flash before your eyes<br>as you go under, it will probably be a fish,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a quick blur of curved silver darting away,<br>having nothing to do with your life or your death.<br>The tide will take you, or the lake will accept it all<br>as you sink toward the weedy disarray of the bottom,<br>leaving behind what you have already forgotten,<br>the surface, now overrun with the high travel of clouds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Billy+Collins">Billy Collins</a><div class=q>
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