Perhaps the ultimate realization is when you stop lying to yourself, that this is the true reality. You see yourself for who you really are and suddenly, a gentle peace comes over you. It's okay, you say. It's okay.

It's been a quiet week. I'll say, the passing of Kurt Vonnegut was strange-- strange in that I had just read Cat's Cradle and have been talking about Slaughterhouse-Five for the past month. But... so it goes.

Requiem by Kurt Vonnegut:

When the last living thing

has died on account of us,

how poetical it would be

if Earth could say,

in a voice floating up

perhaps

from the floor

of the Grand Canyon,

“It is done.”

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13 April 2007 ; 2 comments

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Sabrina on April 13, 2007 at 8:23PM

RIP. I'm sure he's smiling with a jocular expression on his face.


Rachel on April 14, 2007 at 12:16AM

Wow...what a great poem.







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