Prompt; Empty handed

 Add your own verse, stanza, or story of badly-timed annoyance to Alanis Morissette’s classic:

 

It’s like Alexander the Great, on his dying day,

asked his hands be left open in a gesture to say;

You can conquer the world but death will take it all away.

 

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