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From the Preface: There are an infinite number of distractions in one's daily life that take me out of the here-and-now. To live more fully, I need to be awake and alert. Oddly enough, death has the ability to rouse me from the trance state we live in so much of the time. Time itself is trance, but in time our days are numbered like every grain of sand, as Bob Dylan sings. To be wholly alive and awake is to move outside time. Death awareness haiku take one out of time; by its nature, the poetic perspective of haiku tilts one in the direction of the Eternal Now, and elevates things so we may apprehend a higher truth. Please join me in this most precious of places, where together we may find lasting peace, love and transcendence within the vast landscape of impermanence. packing / but I only need one / birthday suit sorry. . . / just one room left / we call it the coffin room service: / you want a cosmetician? / no, a mortician where's my key? / checkout time / is soon