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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Kurt Vonnegut - Requiem for the last living thing

Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, the great classic of the American counter-culture, has passed away. He was 84.
Here are the closing lines of a poem written by him - the concluding poem of his last book. The poem is called 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.
Când ultima vietate
Va fi să moară sfârşind şirul nostru al tuturor,
magie sfântă ar fi
dacă Pământul ar putea să spună,
cu un glas plutind în sus spre azur,
poate
de pe întinsul
Marelui Canion,
S-a săvârşit.
Oamenilor aici nu le-a plăcut.




(A Life in Books)

(Sufi)

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