lived his
VALUES
I think he was a
SHINING example of
HUMAN capacity
for
GOOD
& if there is such a thing as heaven
I hope he and rosalynn
are together
happily
again
I find the dying
of people
that I grew up thinking of as giants
in one way and another
to be hard
I KNOW people die
& probably we wouldn't want to live forever
BUT
it's still a strange kind of
chipping away
at the world
somehow
although
of course there are ever new people, always
& some of them might be giants too
BUT somehow
even if they are all the all that and a bag of chips
that we could ever want
it's not the same
somehow
AND
we aren't SAD
that jimmy carter isn't
with us any more
BECAUSE
we want him to live forever
OR
we think his life
was tragically cut short-- it seems to me
RATHER
we KNOW that the
WORLD is
LESS
without him in it
NOBODY lives
FOREVER
BUT
he REALLY used the
TIME he HAD
to make
the WORLD a better place
