Tag: death

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  • How are we not talking about the corpses?

    How are we not talking about the corpses?

    How are we not talking about the corpses? It’s not like you haven’t seen them – you can’t miss them. When I take the kids out, I see them constantly. Every minute another one, battered or slumped or swollen with gas or smashed apart or flattened. Large and small, old and young. When I’m looking…

  • Bye Bye Mr Magic

    Kieron points to Tony Wilson’s death. And then blathers on about context and contextualisation like he’s swallered a sociolinguistics handbook, as is his wont. The weird thing is, he was someone I grew up with, on the peripherary of my childhood. He was a friend of my parents when I was a kid (they said…

  • Old Kurt‘s dead,He fell and banged his headAnd didn’t get up in the morning. After the initial blow, he was fortunate to have another fifty-five years of life before the discombobulation of the event caught up with him. Around the world, a thousand “So It Goes” echo into the uncaring, arbitrary void.