B3ta is apparently somehow 25 years old. TBH it feels older, like it should have been around during my undergrad days rather than postgrad, but I suppose 25-years ago is proper internet old school and we are all old.

Death Poems

There is, apparently, a Japanese tradition of Death Poems, oft written in the last moments of a poets life, and haunting as one would expect from such a culture.


The snow of yesterday
that fell like cherry petals
is water once again.
Gozan

Or perhaps Takuan Soho’s effort, dragged out of him reluctantly


夢

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