Length of Life: A Sonnet

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Length of Life

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

With what rod will we measure length of life?
Over what green field, and felt, do dice roll,
As in a gambler’s den to cheat the end?
Will our wishes us into trances send,
Remote viewers who the true numbers stole?
What math undergirds this variable strife?
The span which terminat…