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Can I?


I can't stop--

Moving.

I feel like I'm...

Dead?

If I stop moving,

Rigor mortis...

Will set in.

I will seize up--

And never move again.

I have too...

many...

things...

to--

to live up to...

to...

let that happen!

I cant!

I have to keep!

living!

I have to do all the things--

you...

didn't get the time to do!

I have to...

live!

because you,

cant,

I have to!

but...

Im not sure,

I can?

(Dedicated to Keirsten 1998-2016)

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