4:00 a.m. – Lie completely still and compose six hauntingly perfect quatrains in your mind. Refuse to scribble them down. Let them ferment in the silence like forbidden knowledge.6:47 a.m. – Brew tea. Steep it precisely thirty-two seconds while murmuring a sonnet to the leaves. The tea listens. The tea understands.8:00 a.m. – Receive a letter from Death. Decline his invitation; you cannot stop for him. Reseal the letter with wax and hide it under your pillow.
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