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Ultimatum of the Day Christopher Spaide (bio) Live forever. That’s my final offer.That said? I’d settle for a decade deadand forty years forgotten,1.83 meters under, keeping my headdown in the dirt like an introverted gopher.Hello, old moldering folks. Sure, spoil me rotten.Worst case? I’ll live instead, one human portion, nothing more, don’t tempt me.No knock on life. Numerous peer-reviewed studies suggestlife’s quite the gift. I justprefer the box it came in: a cosmosfulof unclaimed space, recycled, recyclable,and look, how densely empty. . . . So what? It bends. Sure beats the plasticky toylife cast me to be.Gun to my head? I’d choose: No gun. No head.No choosing. Forever’s got big plans for me.Forever, who’s your boy. [End Page 143] Christopher Spaide christopher spaide is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. His essays, reviews, and poems have appeared in Contemporary Literature, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The Yale Review. Copyright © 2023 Christopher Spaide ...
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