Baby.
On the floor they lay
Not a wrinkle or crease to save
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Like this Robert, rather be at the beginning of the poem rather than the end though! ! !
A modern version of the all time great imagery of Shakespeare's celebrated 7 stages in Man's life... but irony is...these days Death doesn't wait for all the stages to be completed....Here the effect of passing time is shown through HANDS...this is new....
The writer has traced age through hands describing it's stages.Interestingly hands start from a wave to play to wave to a sigh, a bit of drama but the whole life is a drama with different acts, penned thoughtfully.