April 12, 2007 by Amy

Farewell, Mr. 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.

-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
November 11, 1923 – April 11, 2007