One and two

Death had a big day today. And the day before that.

It's enough to make a person want to get up and move to France.

To find a little spot all to oneself. Perhaps on the garden rooftop of the Musuem of Contemporary Art in Nimes where one can order a cool drink and watch the goings-on down in the main square from an elevated position.

(Best to keep a little distance).

It was just the day before yesterday, or the day before that, that death had such a big day. By this is meant that the dead will be missed, especially those who lived their lives so well...

Carl Oglesby, activist, town crier, antiwar leader, who in 1965 condemmed the kind 'corporate liberalism'--American economic interests disguised as Communist benevolence--that underpinned the Vietnam War.' (Thank you New York Times), making 'no real effort at all to crack through the much more vicious right-wing tyrannies that our businesmen traffic with and our nation profits from every day."

John Calley, movie producer, whose films always had a bit of bite and said of the process of making them: "You're always very unhappy for a long period of time. And you don't experience joy. At the end you experience relief, if you're lucky."

Charles Olson (1910-1970):"one's character never changes, it only stands more revealed."