Today I mourn the corpse of my corpus:
\nThe work of a lifetime, lost to a glitch.
\nA power-fail head-crash erased the enormous
\ncollection of all I have done. \u201cLife\u2019s a bitch,<\/p>\n
and then you die,\u201d so goes the meme.
\nBut I had intended my work to survive
\nlong after I\u2019m dead, so that it might seem
\nthat some of my essense might still be alive.<\/p>\n
Goodbye 787 Quips,
\nhundreds of papers and invited cants,
\n22 Stories with rejection slips,
\n56 poems, 31 Rants. . .<\/p>\n
OMG, is that the summation
\nof all I\u2019ve accomplished in 78 years?
\nWhat are my choices in this situation:
\nStart over now, or just drown in my tears?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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