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You Live

(for a life well spent)

(Juan Flores, 1943 – 2014)

Live your life to its fullest
sowing a seed into every life
before it leaves you

Juvenile at heart
Unrelenting in spirit
Able in old age
Never boring, never down

Full of wisdom
Loving and kind
Ornamented with virtues
Rendering all to all at will
Emptied, fulfilled, you left us
Surely, your absence we’d feel here

Gabriel Bamgbose

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This space shall not carry an Editor’s Note this time, but a Tribute to a beloved professor, Juan Flores, who I never had the “chance” to express to him how much I deeply admire and love him before his transition on December 2. Juan Flores, a professor in the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University, continues to live on in many lives he has made his mark on.