adding one to the pile

[nigeltde]

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.”
People did not like it here.


Requiem
by Kurt Vonnegut

Comments

[corvus-coronis.livejournal.com]

I just found out about it myself :(

[nigeltde]

:-( indeed

[petrichor-fizz.livejournal.com]

Oh shit, I didn't think I would cry about it, but there you go.

[nigeltde]

I think the worst thing about it is that he had taken that fall beforehand, you know? His name and brain injuries just don't belong in the same sentence.