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Not under pressure of a private grief,
Oh for but a few years yet of useful
Life, for all's complete once your rat
Race is run, that's how things go, no one prescribes to
Or gets to presume to order life
Around as though it were a sort of waitress race
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Waitress serving at restaurant counter while wearing Halloween chicken costume, Leroy's Restaurant, Monrovia, California (original caption: "D.K. made fine chicken, but there was something vaguely creepy about ordering eggs..."): photo by Ross Berteig, 31 October 2002
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Waves crash over the sea wall in Blackpool, as Storm Gertrude is sweeping the country with winds of more than 90mph, leaving thousands of homes without power, buildings damaged and transport disrupted: photo by Peter Byrne/PA, 29 January 2016
![Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray outside the shrine of Sufi Saint Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Jan. 29, 2016. Thousands of devotees thronged to the shrine, where the Kashmiri Muslim head priest displayed the relics of the Sufi Saint. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)]()
Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray outside the shrine of Sufi Saint Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Thousands of devotees thronged to the shrine, where the Kashmiri Muslim head priest displayed the relics of the Sufi Saint: photo by Dar Yasin/AP, 29 January 2016
![TOPSHOT - A fishing boat is seen in the ...TOPSHOT - A fishing boat is seen in the morning general view of the city skyline covered by a smoggy haze in Mumbai on January 29, 2016. AFP PHOTO / PUNIT PARANJPE / AFP / PUNIT PARANJPEPUNIT PARANJPE/AFP/Getty Images]()
A fishing boat is seen and the city skyline is covered by a smoggy haze in Mumbai: photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP, 29 January 2016
![A volunteer for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sanders holds the door open ahead of a campaign rally in Fairfield, Iowa...Billy Hunter, a volunteer for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, holds a door open while waiting for Sanders to arrive at a campaign rally in Fairfield, Iowa January 28, 2016. REUTERS/Mark Kauzlarich]()
Linda Gainer, owner of The Narrows, a restaurant and tavern just outside the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, said she was criticized for serving everyone involved in the standoff, from the F.B.I. to the protesters: photo by Jarod Opperman for The New York Times, 29 January 2016
Not under pressure of a private grief,
Oh for but a few years yet of useful
Life, for all's complete once your rat
Race is run, that's how things go, no one prescribes to
Or gets to presume to order life
Around as though it were a sort of waitress race
Sister Life has better things to do than wait
Around in the wings for the part
You may have written for her
Around in the wings for the part
You may have written for her
Waitress serving at restaurant counter while wearing Halloween chicken costume, Leroy's Restaurant, Monrovia, California (original caption: "D.K. made fine chicken, but there was something vaguely creepy about ordering eggs..."): photo by Ross Berteig, 31 October 2002
Mason's Cafe: truck driver, sailor and waitress at highway coffee shop on US 90 in Southern Louisiana: photo by John Vachon, 1943 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
Waves crash over the sea wall in Blackpool, as Storm Gertrude is sweeping the country with winds of more than 90mph, leaving thousands of homes without power, buildings damaged and transport disrupted: photo by Peter Byrne/PA, 29 January 2016
Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray outside the shrine of Sufi Saint Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Thousands of devotees thronged to the shrine, where the Kashmiri Muslim head priest displayed the relics of the Sufi Saint: photo by Dar Yasin/AP, 29 January 2016
Billy Hunter, a volunteer for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, holds a door open while waiting for Sanders to arrive at a campaign rally in Fairfield, Iowa: photo by Mark Kauzlarich/Reuters, 29 January 2016