..."only as long as you can keep it" / Ben Franklin

It’s altogether fitting to write a Requiem Mass

on the demise of the seriously flawed, yet persistently

"struggling to right itself", experiment known as

our Democratic Republic,–– because

It’s dead as a doornail.

November 8, 2022.

Could be its Requiem has already been unwittingly written.

Let's give a listen to “Amériques” by Edgard Varése, shall we?

(My performance of choice recorded to CD is with

Christoph von Dohnányi and the Cleveland Orchestra)

So, good luck to one and all.

I’ll be under my bed, and if interrogated by the authorities,

disavowing any and all knowledge of you.