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To String Near Misses (an attempt at poetry)

January 15, 2022 ~ Lisa Helm ~ Leave a comment

“…the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.” Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell … Continue reading To String Near Misses (an attempt at poetry)

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