May 17, 2007

Reading notes on Meg Hamill's Death Notices (Factory, 2007).

--I can't write that many obituaries, though I'm beginning to understand why I must (7).

--was he one of the good ones or one of the bad ones. . . The missile that killed him now in pieces over there in lieu of flowers (9).

--dominic you signed up for killing and yet you were killed you were guilty and yet holding on to your rabbit ear were you any more guilty than me dominic (12).

--soldiers would mention some english names of stars of football players and request us to remember them or we would be beaten severely (40).

--what does it mean to love courage if we are hurtling through space like this anyway where would the courage go if it was lost (52).

--do not kick the bodies underneath the table that are gathering between us without noticing without taking note of their limpness their inability to hold onto each other their inability to pray or to breathe (55).

--could it be that healing begins at the moment when we learn to sustain our gaze on all the bad and all the stunning things just keep our eyes looking past the time when we want to stop looking (61).