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	A Compendium of Destruction Selected by falduto1
	Description Death, the inescapable. Destruction, whether it be Mother Nature or mankind. This compilation speaks of fear, pain, loneliness, and other acts of turmoil. Most fear the end, but some actually embrace the thought. After reading this quote by Jim Morrison, one's perspective on death may completely change while browsing this compilation... “I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD...I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.”
	Synopsis "The only two certainties in life are death and taxes."

Poetry
•	Recession by Sydney Lea
•	The Book of the Dead Man (Food) by Marvin Bell
•	Inferno, Canto XXXIV by Dante Alighieri
•	A Poison Tree by William Blake
•	Advice to Passengers by John Gallaher
•	Age and Death by Emma Lazarus
•	Bomb Crater Sky by Lam Thi My Da
•	Good Night by Wilhelm Müller
•	The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden
•	Another Elegy by Jericho Brown