<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">You Cannot Kill Me<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">I am not only I</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">but a multiplicity of souls</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">I have always been here</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">I will always be back</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">I was your uncle, your 5th grade teacher, your cousin</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">I will be your grandson, your niece, the boy next door</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">you can erase my words</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">and a new Sappho, Rumi, Whitman, Stein, Lorca, Lorde</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">will emerge and write what I wrote</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">even more beautifully</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">you can shatter my statues</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">and a new </span></strong><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">Michelangelo</span><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">with a sharper chisel and a stronger arm</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">will make grander statues</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">you can silence my singing</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">and a new Bessie Smith </span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">will sound a bluer note</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">I have always been here</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">indivisible,</span></strong><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class=""> </span></strong><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">essential</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">to the human spirit</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">firebird I am</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">feathered serpent</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">in every opposition</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">I am</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">the tender collapse</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">that always happens</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">before a song</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">rises up</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">to heaven</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">you see</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">I cannot die</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">you cannot</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">kill me</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""> <span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="4" class=""> <span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></h1><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Franklin Abbott</font></span></strong></h1><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>