John Updike, Off to Valhalla...

[motordavid]

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




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

[E61Silver]

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

My Dad pasted last week as well.

[X5rolls]

Condolences on losing your dad.

[motordavid]

Requiem

By JOHN UPDIKE






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.”

[motordavid]

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

[E61Silver]

Thank you

The Requiem is very good.