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# Principal Life
**by Greg Zeck**

If you died tomorrow,
God forbid, says my friend,
the insurance agent provocateur, 
if there is a God, it’s his guess as good as 
mine, forbid that you should die tomorrow, 
that is. The day after tomorrow might be more 
convenient, I reply. Tomorrow, you see, is fully booked, 
I have events up the ying-yang starting with my morning 
coffee with the boys, and as for today I’m afraid the calendar 
is already chock-full. Damned if I wouldn’t have a helluva 
time finding time today to pay down even that measly 
one dollar on the one-hundred-thousand-dollar life 
insurance policy. God forbid indeed such a thing 
should happen to a mere mortal man. Can’t 
Principal just mind its own business today?