and so it goes...

kurt vonnegut died last night. one of my teenage writer-heroes passed into the dark night after 84 years on the planet.

the link above has the nytimes obit notice which goes a long way towards explaining most of his novesl. which is sort of said - they should be experienced not explained away in one's obit notice.

i read 'player piano' and 'sirens of titan' back to back in grade eleven. i still think back to that time of scribbling down what came to be hundreds of poems and reading my head off of stuff that i thought would matter.

kurt vonnegut's work mattered.
you'll be missed kilgore trout.
at long last, rest in peace.