And This

This

Matt Taibbi Is Such A Good Writer

that I think I'd still read him if he was on the other side. Thank God he's not.
Funeral director with a hangover indeed.

Corgis Do Not Like Halloween

This is why.
They do, however, like The Queen.

And outside the cabin, falling leaves.

Maybe someday I'll write something about it all, but in the meantime, there's always Billy Collins.
And Marvin Bell ("When the dead man throws up, he thinks he sees his inner life"), and Kay Ryan, and Anne Carson and Marie Howe ("This is what you have been waiting for, he used to say to me") and Philip Larkin and...and...well, and poetry, my dear.