Everyone now and again wonders aboutthose questions that have no readyanswers: first cause, God's existence,what happens when the curtain goesdown and nothing stops it, not kissing,not going to the mall, not the SuperBowl."Wild roses," I said to them one morning."Do you have the answers? And if you do,would you tell me?"The roses laughed softly. "Forgive us,"they said. "But as you can see, we arejust now entirely busy being roses.
-Mary Oliver
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