The Last Question
\nby
\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n
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Once I met a ghost full of questions. We walked for hours, losing track of time. I answered their questions as best I could, but they didn\u2019t seem interested in my answers, which were mostly guesses anyway. They just kept asking question after question. I tried asking them one every now and then, but I couldn\u2019t get a word in edgewise. Here are the questions they asked. I wrote them down for you. I remember all of them except one. The last one.<\/p>\n
Have you ever flipped a knife to see if it would land <\/em> And that\u2019s the question I don\u2019t remember. I think it was something about who do I believe myself to be, but I\u2019m not sure. Do you have any idea what their last question could have been? Why do you think it needs to get answered before I die? Do you think that means I\u2019m going to die soon? What if I die soon? What if I die soon and haven\u2019t answered the question? Will you hold my hand and wait with me while I\u2019m trying to remember the last question?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Last Question by Radiance Angelina Petro Once I met a ghost full of questions. We walked for hours, losing track of time. I answered their questions as best I could, but they didn\u2019t seem interested in my answers, which were mostly guesses anyway. They just kept asking question after question. I tried […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2738,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwith the blade stuck in the grass?<\/em>
\nHave you ever found an old well and looked down <\/em>
\nonly to find it filled with dirt?<\/em>
\nDo you believe you\u2019ve done anything <\/em>
\nmeritorious? That\u2019s a word I learned when I got here.<\/em>
\nWhat do you think the first question in the world was? <\/em>
\nSomeone here says they know but they won\u2019t tell me.<\/em>
\nEverything\u2019s instantaneous isn\u2019t it?<\/em>
\nHave you ever pulled a sword from a scabbard <\/em>
\nand yelled: \u201cCharge!\u201d? <\/em>
\nI carried a secret goodness to the other side. <\/em>
\nI still have it in my pocket. Can you guess what it is?<\/em>
\nI met a guy here named Buddha. He asked me a question. <\/em>
\nWant to know what it was?<\/em>
\nIf you ever came across a rope dangling all the way from heaven <\/em>
\nwhat would you do? I found one once and gave it a tug <\/em>
\nand ended up pulling the whole rope down. <\/em>
\nI didn\u2019t know what to do after that so I looked around for a second <\/em>
\nand then kept walking, pretending nothing happened, although <\/em>
\nI had the feeling I should be running, and I\u2019m pretty sure <\/em>
\nI heard a crow telling me to.<\/em>
\nAre my questions bugging you? <\/em>
\nThere\u2019s lots of gods here dressed in feathers. Why do you think that is?<\/em>
\nHow old do you think I am?<\/em>
\nWant to know how I died?<\/em>
\nHave you ever seen someone walk into the woods and suddenly <\/em>
\nstoop down on all fours, grow hooves and paws or something, <\/em>
\nand just keep going? I see that all the time now.<\/em>
\nAre you sure my questions aren\u2019t bothering you? <\/em>
\nAnyway, I only have one more and then I have to go. <\/em>
\nWant to guess what my last question is? It\u2019s the question we all have to answer <\/em>
\nbefore we get here.<\/em><\/p>\n