the sentence that ends with a semi-colon

avidly existential,

dying words essential,

they're floating through my mind,

like an unfrozen astronaut,

cryogenically prepared

not to find

a program,

for this forgotten play

illusions alluding to another day

when the world made sense

instead of a series of vignettes

but now i'm trapped in this one

i thought i chose not to end it,

but woke up regretting it

and now i know

that no matter what i chose

my sentence ends

too soon,

a ghost,

of the rest of the poem,

remaining at the end,

marked

by a semi-colon

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