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I worry.

I have to because nobody else does.

Some strange car comes up the driveway –

They go right on talking. They trust,

I don’t. Threat crosses my nose

Twenty times a day.

No wonder I bark and menace,

Who knows who it could be at the door

’Specially in these times.

Arthur Miller, ‘Lola’s Lament’

How to resist nothingness? What power

Preserves what once was, if memory does not last?

For I remember little. I remember so very little.

Indeed, moments restored would mean the Last Judgement

That is adjourned from day to day, by Mercy perhaps.

Czeslaw Milosz, ‘On Parting With My Wife, Janina’

You were never masters, but friends. I was your friend.

I loved you well, and was loved. Deep love endures

To the end and far past the end. If this is my end,

I am not lonely. I am not afraid. I am still yours.

Robinson Jeffers, ‘The Housedog’s Grave’