Tag Archives: Obituaries

Goodbye Gator

Burt Reynolds died today. He was 82.

The nihilist

He wore his pants

tapered,

hip. He dug Hemingway

too. But his father

said glumly

“Son, your taste

is un-Russian…”

Thus he saddened

his family

hard-working

boosters of output—

all the time

arguing with them

about weird

predilections.

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Mark Fisher– teacher, music writer, socialist intellectual, author of Capitalist Realism— has died.

Here is an example of his incisive perspicuity: