<div class="nodetitle">At Memorial on Broadway, caskets are kept in the basement</div>
<div class="quote">{(live: 2s)[(stop:)the first outsider]}
{(live: 4s)[(stop:) who knew his name]}
{(live: 6s)[(stop:) was the funeral director]}
{(live: 8s)[(stop:) who led me down the stairs <br />]}</div>
<div class="brick">[[🀰->Visit]]</div><div class="nodetitle">Last visit to the doctor's green-veranda'd Victorian office</div>
<div class="quote">{(live: 2s)[(stop:) lit through slitted Venetian blinds]}
{(live: 4s)[(stop:) the slow unwinding of stored energy:]}
{(live: 6s)[(stop:) a rubber bulb pendulums to stillness]}
{(live: 8s)[(stop:) hanging from a blood pressure cuff <br />]}</div>
<div class="brick">[[Hospital <- 🀰]]</div><script>
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<h3 class="landing">memento mori</h3>
<h4 class="landing">by John G. McDaid</h4>
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<img src="goldfish.jpg" align="center" />
<div class="landing">[[remember->Memorial]]</div>
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© 2020 john mcdaid<div class="nodetitle">The hospital, in pale yellow tile and speckled linoleum</div>
<div class="quote">{(live: 2s)[(stop:) sterile rooms enfold]}
{(live: 4s)[(stop:) the dim chill of machinery]}
{(live: 6s)[(stop:) and unheard words sent reeling from ]}
{(live: 8s)[(stop:) a motionless image<br />]}</div>
<div class="brick">[[Nursery<- 🀰]]</div><div class="nodetitle">They emptied the nursery</div>
<div class="quote">{(live: 2s)[(stop:) washed and swaddled]}
{(live: 4s)[(stop:) arranged a tiny stuffed goldfish]}
{(live: 6s)[(stop:) and an empty rocking chair]}
{(live: 8s)[(stop:) to support the non-sedated parent<br />]}</div>
<div class="brick">[[Box<- 🀰]]</div><div class="nodetitle">Amid sprays of flowers, an impossibly small white box</div>
<div class="quote">{(live: 2s)[(stop:) an ant performs a random walk]}
{(live: 4s)[(stop:) around the lid —]}
{(live: 6s)[(stop:) a moving black dot]}
{(live: 8s)[(stop:) exploring vast emptiness<br />]}</div>
<div class="brick">[[Beach<- 🀰]]</div><div class="nodetitle">Memento mori</div>
"There is only one wall, the wall of time, and it is three hundred thousand meter-seconds high."
(display: "BrickScript")<div class="nodetitle">There are only three parking spots at the crematorium</div>
<div class="quote">{(live: 2s)[(stop:) walking a November beach]}
{(live: 4s)[(stop:) feeling that last heat]}
{(live: 6s)[(stop:) from the box under my jacket holding]}
{(live: 8s)[(stop:) bone, crushed almost to sand<br />]}</div>
<div class="brick">[[End<- 🀰]]</div><div class="nodetitle"></div>
<div class="brick">[[🀰->Splash screen]]</div>