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Post by MoonyLuna on Feb 7, 2009 11:43:41 GMT -5
Economies of scale dictate specific fates, a calculus where greater good enables one unhappy outcome at a time (others' grief negating yours). We can't account for every life. Advertising's down, the papers allocate obituaries to lives and deaths deemed newsworthy. The worm's devoured to feed the flock; objectives require sacrifice, loss is cross-collateralized against the term of patient gain, the upside's ultimate return. Whoever dies obliges us to justify with other names that name beneath the photograph so no one's left anonymous, alone in suffering, but shares the common decencies: a call, green wreath or funeral bouquet, official letter of regret and gratitude for service done— so many waiting to be mailed while urgent matters intervene— condolences expressed above our signature facsimile.
copyright George Witte
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Post by MoonyLuna on Feb 7, 2009 11:44:36 GMT -5
Featured Poet George Witte
George Witte's first collection of poems, The Apparitioners, was published in 2005. His work has appeared widely, including, in 2007, in Best American Poetry. He was awarded Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize and received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. For twenty-four years he has worked in book publishing at St. Martin's Press, where he is now editor-in-chief. He lives with his wife and their two daughters in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
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