“If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?”
Source: When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
“Yes
You have come upon the fabled lands where myths
Go when they die,
But some, especially the Brummagem capitalist
Juju, have arrived prematurely.”
"The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford", line 41, from The Memory of War (1982).
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