To Banana-Hen and Luke, for the journey ahead

(and the rest of us, for surviving the year)

---

You are on your way

            my friends

        shake yourselves free

wrap yourselves in the cloaks

        of your own mortality

and live.

            oh, you bags of bones

                                    have you forgotten how to laugh?

while you may feast your eyes on the fact of life's absurdity

                        don’t close your hearts to the beauty of life's mystery

for, with so many Great Truths gone

                        now but corpses that we speak about

we have no choice

            but to learn to live

   among the dead.

                                                                        --- Jen Wright

Happy Graduation!!