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parable of two wrecks
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Parable of Two Wrecks
Dean’s collision left a boy in a Ford,
haunted by silence,
living decades with the weight of a single instant,
his name footnoted, his breath unremarked.
Camus’s crash left a friend in the driver’s seat,
carried off days later,
as if absurdity refused to leave witnesses—
the philosopher and his publisher
bound together in the same unfinished sentence.
So one man lived too long with history’s hush,
another died too soon in its echo.
And the parable is this:
fate spares and fate consumes,
but always without reason,
always with perfect irony.
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