Graduation day precedes final report card pick-up. The “Last Dance” at Senior Prom precedes some final melody. A roll of thunder follows a lightening strike–before the last flash of the storm. A parry during a fencing match lands before the ultimate riposte.
How these penultimates eclipse the end!
dogs, fish, lizards, mice …
that heartbreaking
order of pets
still the sun rises
the next morning
Frank J. Tassone 
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