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Aphorism II
Kevin Griffith

Why would I lie in the bed I had just made?

Eschatology: I am always the last to know.

Regret is the ghost of happiness.

You can never be in two times at the same place, either.

It’s never too late to get an early start.

Never always describes itself in one word.

You cannot use light to see the light.

Even a bottomless pit has a top.

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Kevin Griffith is the author of five books, including Denmark, Kangaroo, Orange, and 101 Kinds of Irony. He is a four-time winner of an Ohio Arts Fellowship in Poetry. His work has appeared recently in Hotel Amerika, North American Review, and many other journals.

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