<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461142" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Write Yours Now</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The 'Journal of Death Studies' for April2004<br>(maybe you read it? It's in the <br>hospital library, top shelf<br>just out of wheelchair reach, <br>on the shelf labelled 'Reference') <br>observed that</div><div style="margin:10px 0">nonfiction writers tend to die, factually, at sixty-eight; <br>novelists tie it all up at sixty-six; <br>playwrights lower the curtain at sixty-three, <br>and poets close their stanzas at sixty-two. <br>Well, thanks..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">six years - looking on the bright side -<br>for your favourite biographer to write you up; <br>four years for novelists to borrow<br>your untidy life and win the Booker Prize; <br>a year for playwrights to emulate<br>the bitter dialogue of your later, <br>less romantic household years<br>with less fear of being sued.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those whom the gods love, die young, <br>said the optimistic poet<br>shortly before he died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">for PoHo, who gave me the damn book with the reference in.<br>And yes, I wondered too..</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461142" data-title="Write Yours Now de Michael Shepherd" data-description="The 'Journal of Death Studies' for April2004 (maybe you read it? It's in the hospital library, top shelf just out of wheelchair reach, on the shelf labelled 'Reference') observed that nonfiction writers tend to die, factually, at sixty-eight; ..."></div> </div> </div>

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