John Updike, Off to Valhalla...
 

One of my favorite writers, and, imo, one of the best 20th Century
chroniclers of the American middle class human condition.
BR,mD

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/bo...0Updike&st=cse

Just proves that we all get old and then we die.

My Dad pasted last week as well.

Condolences on losing your dad.

Requiem

By JOHN UPDIKE




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It came to me the other day:
Were I to die, no one would say,
“Oh, what a shame! So young, so full
Of promise — depths unplumbable!”

Instead, a shrug and tearless eyes
Will greet my overdue demise;
The wide response will be, I know,
“I thought he died a while ago.”

For life’s a shabby subterfuge,
And death is real, and dark, and huge.
The shock of it will register
Nowhere but where it will occur.
— JOHN UPDIKE

This poem is taken from John Updike’s forthcoming collection, “Endpoint and Other Poems.”

Blue,
My sincere condolences and empathy on the loss of your Father.
Best Regards, mD

Thank you

The Requiem is very good.