The Big Sleep

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What did it matter where you lay
once you were dead?

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In a stagnant lake or in a marble tower
on top of a hill? You were dead...

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... you were sleeping the big sleep, you
were not bothered by things like that.

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Oil and water...

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... were the same as wind and air to you.
You just slept the big sleep...

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... not caring about the nastiness
of how you died or where you fell.

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Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far
more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.

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But the old man didn't have to be.

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He could lie quiet in his canopied bed,
with his bloodless hands...

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... folded on the sheet, waiting.

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His heart was a brief, uncertain murmur.

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His thoughts were as grey as ashes.

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And in a little while he too,
like Rusty Regan...

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... would be sleeping the big sleep.