Folks exploding with life,
It's better to burn out than fade away,^
It will shorten your strife,
Not that you have to die 'fore you get old,#
Don't matter anyway,
You miss just as much dying at ninety,
As you would leaving earth as a baby,
Which is to say that you would miss nothing,
For nothing e'er changes,
Unless by force of the remarkable,
Who don't live by ranges,
That implies time,
And you can't afford it,
That's the diff'rence 'tween those who live and die,
The first use time, th'others simply hoard it.
*Jack Kerouac, ^Neil Young, #Pete Townsend
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