Thursday, October 6, 2011

I WISH I COULD SEND HIM BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD

"Death is very likely the single best
invention of life." --Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

(Warning: don't listen to me--
I've been in mourning
since Spots my guinea pig died
unexpectedly in 1950.)

I wonder what Steve Jobs would say
now that he's tried it? Dying's
a wonderful part of life.
How pseudo-Zen can you get?

"Do you ever think of death?"
Rooney, 92, smiled. "Often. Every day."
"What do you have to say to the viewers?"
"I don't like it, " he replied.

I happen not to like it either.
Mozart at 35, Steve Jobs at 56--
Today a gorgeous sixteen-year-old
cheerleading her schoolmates to victory

collapsed. Zero, how dare you do that?
Somebody's daughter soon some body's dust.
I cannot accept cold, indifferent ash--
You'd better; you have no choice.


Thomas Dorsett, October 6, 2011

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