Well, it IS sixteen lnes but Im not sure she'll wear lines as long as that. Pity. I like it.
Philip Larkin Rewrites Dunbar's 'Timor Mortis'
Whenever I succumb to cold
I fear the end of being old.
Whenever I am sick in bed
I worry about being dead.
For Death's a democratic thing.
The Queen will die. Her dad the King,
He died. Dad did. They all go through it.
There's nobody who doesn't do it.
Financiers, as rich as Croesus,
Fall prey to various diseases.
Immortal poets, even those,
In course of time turn up their toes.
Eliot, Housman, Auden, Larkin,
All call, perforce, the Lord of Dark in.
He stills our song. He stops our breath.
I am consumed by Fear of Death.
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