December Dirges

DIRGE
Definition:
a funeral hymn or mournful speech
Example:
Melville wrote the poem A DIRGE for James McPherson for the funeral of a Union general who was killed in 1864.
Synonyms:
knell, requiem




Dreadful Shadows Lyrics
Dirge Lyrics

In a month that saw a certain politician say that the solution for the poor and their lack of vital nutrients on their table lies in hunting and cooking RATS - and this odd statement comes simultaneously with the revelation that *some* poor have indeed gone as far as to consider their guinea pigs as Christmas time feast... (R.I.P., piggies)
In a bitterly cold month, in which one sees the harshness of one's climate more than clearly - depending where you live, exactly, on the ol' mudball...
In a month tailor-made for mourning; we have seen irrefutable evidence, once again, that BEFORE DEATH as before Our Creator... Our Maker... Our Lord Of lords... we are all equal.

The only difference being that *that* Mr. Rogers right there is able to have long and costly dirges sung to his memory - his estate and his heirs will not have it any other way.
Others cannot even convince their priests to have the bells chime in their wake...!
This discrepancy is only of THIS WORLD though - not from the next one, to which we are all headed, sometimes head first; and on equal footing indeed.

Of those crossing over to the Other Side this month - on the ethereal even-playing field - I'll delineate Majel Barrett, Janica Milot, Sam Bottoms (who is not going to the bottom), Hubert "Pit" Martin (who is not going to the pit), Bettie Page, Eartha Kitt and many more illuminaries as well as numerous more of the nameless, unidentified, non-celebrity kind...

Remember, this December and evermore: no matter what amounts of notoriety one has garnered on this side, it is all as nothing for the Other Side - the one that counts for all of Eternity...

Thus, score points while here THE RIGHT WAY - capisce?

In This Life...


- Chantal Kreviazuk Lyrics




Chantal Kreviazuk Lyrics
God Made Me Lyrics


And in lieu of a decent dirge...



Dark Lotus Lyrics
I Wanna Die Lyrics



Subhumans Lyrics
I Don%27t Wanna Die Lyrics



New Radicals Lyrics
I Don%27t Wanna Die Anymore Lyrics

2 to 1 in favor of living on...!


Have a luminous 2009 -
not a lugubrious one.

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