“Grim Pilgrims gather: ‘Thanks.’ I give thanks too”

Grim Pilgrims gather: ‘Thanks.’ I give thanks too,  as the last leaves fly, that he did not live on  but yellow & skin-thin  & grinning ceased. True that his harvest due  only was beginning, that no sun  distracted his widow in  her calm dismay; but count up then his gain, —  Paris unfallen, Hiroshima tall,  millions of Jews walking,  Gandhi spinning, treacheries that sprain  our hopes unspun, promises unmade all  that proved just talking.  The ballet of your dying hope no more  tortures me with its fool. What childish plan  ’s this, keen on living?  Embryonal adeno-carcinoma, grade 4.  ’Twas in the testes, there since you began.  Fume, hiss. Happy Thanksgiving.

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