[lbo-talk] Kurt Vonnegut, "Requiem"

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/books/12vonnegut.html>
April 12, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught the Imagination of His Age, Is Dead at 84
By DINITIA SMITH

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His last book, in 2005, was a collection of biographical essays, "A
Man Without a Country." It, too, was a best seller.

It concludes with a poem written by Mr. Vonnegut called "Requiem,"
which has these closing lines:

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.
-- 
Yoshie