{"id":381,"date":"1987-07-08T17:50:48","date_gmt":"1987-07-09T00:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:02:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:02:37","slug":"cause-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1987\/07\/08\/cause-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was not disease from which I died,<br \/>\nSo do not put that as a cause;<br \/>\nNor was it an act of God<br \/>\nThat took away this life of mine.<\/p>\n<p>It could never have been an accident,<br \/>\nAn injury or a suicide,<br \/>\nAnd it was not cold-blooded murder,<br \/>\nNor starvation or old age.<\/p>\n<p>My death was not a statistic,<br \/>\nBut merely another death.<\/p>\n<p>My cause of death was only one thing,<br \/>\nAnd that one thing only I would have you know:<br \/>\nMy cause of death will be your cause of death<br \/>\nAnd the cause of all causes of all death.<\/p>\n<p>My cause of death is life.<br \/>\nSo do not put anything down.<\/p>\n<p>My time came and brought my end<br \/>\nIn this place so now I may be free.<br \/>\nOnly one way exists to beat the<br \/>\nInsatiability of this existence:<br \/>\nSimply to be satisfied and accept all.<\/p>\n<p>Why be dissatisfied with a life<br \/>\nWhen we know it&#8217;s insatiability?<br \/>\nThere must always be this dissatisfaction<br \/>\nIn this life<br \/>\nFor this life is not complete in and of itself. <\/p>\n<p>My cause of death is life I know,<br \/>\nAs your cause will be too.<br \/>\nPlease don&#8217;t prolong this life artificially,<br \/>\nWith machines that take my freedom,<br \/>\nFor my time is over when it&#8217;s over,<br \/>\nAnd has begun again when it is over.<\/p>\n<p>Then burn that body I inhabited,<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t let it rot in the ground,<br \/>\nSo that I may be freed from these<br \/>\nEarth&#8217;s ties more quickly this time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was not disease from which I died,<br \/> So do not put that as a cause;<br \/> Nor was it an act of God<br \/> That took away this life of mine.<\/p>\n<p>It could never have been an accident,<br \/> An injury or a suicide,<br \/> And it was not cold-blooded murder,<br \/> Nor starvation or old age.<\/p>\n<p>My [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-poems","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}