What is Life?

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  "What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." - Said by Chief Crowfoot, Blackfoot Indian Chief.

  This last entry was written in red ink and decorated with a border of green-ink stars; the anthologist wished to emphasize its "personal significance." "A breath of a buffalo in the wintertime" -- that exactly evoked his view of life. Why worry? What was there to "sweat about"? Man was nothing, a mist, a shadow absorbed by shadows.

  But, damn it, you do worry, scheme, fret over your fingernails....

" - Truman Capote, In Cold Blood.

celestial zenith
also gone at noon
that lost little shadow that
runs across the grass