April 12, 2007

So it goes...farewell Kurt Vonnegut

For all those war mongerers, a final word from the now late author, playwright and poet Kurt Vonnegut;

Requiem

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.

The NY Times carries an obituary



1 comment:

Ram Thakur said...

That is a fantastic little poem by Kurt Vonnegut on the probable scenario, Ravi.
The way the earth is being molested by us humans, it's going to happen not too far away into the future.