Not This, Not That

Living. Dying. everyone has lived before, here and there; everyone dies, now and then. - look at all the maps of mankind run amuk with dots of red, blue and black - roads, towns, cities and hamlets, People everywhere; villages without voices; mountains miles apart or side by side, rivers, creeks and streams flowing in all directions, lakes and oceans fields and woods full of People, living, or dead. - why are there no population signs at the gates to a cemetary? do they fill too fast? - life is not this; and not that; ditto the dying. so I look at maps, with all those impressive symbols of mankinds great progression. Not forward. Not backward. simply moving, as the living do... and the dying wish for more of.