Oh,
I
know

I too shall cease and be as when I was not yet, only all over instead of in store. That makes me happy, often now my murmur falters and dies and I weep for happiness as I go along and for love of this old earth

that has carried me so long and whose uncomplainingness will soon be mine. Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate, and drift through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me.

A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought,
a ton of worms, I believe it.


--- Samuel Beckett
in
From an Abandoned Work


From RALPH, The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities
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