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death peotry These pieces of death poetry are part of the literary miscellany called THIS IS A PICTURE OF YOUR GOD: A HUGH COOK READER Saddam is Guilty Praise poem for Saddam Hussein. A role model. A man who knows how to die. death peotry a suite of death poetry in the literary miscellany THIS IS A PICTURE OF YOUR GOD These death peotry form part of the literary miscellany THIS IS A PICTURE OF YOUR GOD: A HUGH COOK READER. There are also two other death-related poems in the book, one a praise poem for Saddam Hussein and the other an informed consent procedure for death. Saddam is Guilty Informed Consent Procedure for Death The other death peotry are consolidated in a section entitled death peotry, which contains the items listed below. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 353 — Part Six — death peotry. A selection of poems about death and dying, originally intended to be the core of a book of death peotry, to be called THE DEATH OF BIRDS. Two additional poems were written for this series, item the poem, SADDAM IS GUILTY which is part of item thirteen, FLYING HIGH ON DRUGS, and item twenty-one, INFORMED CONSENT PROCEDURE FOR DEATH. death peotry Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 354 — Item Fifty — BEING DEAD. A breakdown of the basic deal. Maybe you were misinformed. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 355 — Item Fifty-One — THE DEATH OF BIRDS Never read their obituaries, but birds do die. This is a look at the process. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 356 — Item Fifty-Two — THE CHEATED DAUGHTER A father betrays his daughter. He has his reasons, of course. Men always do. Naturally, there is another woman involved. A number of other women, in fact. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 358 — Item Fifty-Three — RECIDIVISM As a deterrent, the death penalty fails. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 360 — Item Fifty-Four — NINE MONTH PARACHUTE DROP And what if the sentence is to be death, death guaranteed, no treatment on offer? I need a script for this, and, really, I need it now. So I can prepare for my death sentence. If that is what, in fact, is coming down the pipeline. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 361 — Item Fifty-Five — THE HAPPY PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICHES Meantime, the world rolls on as usual, with the standard tragedies within it. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 362 — Item Fifty-Six — DYING WE CAN DO TOMORROW Not if you are in the middle of a heart attack, obviously. Then your death becomes immediate. But one of the privileges of cancer is leisure. Time to sit around and drink red wine and eat chocolate. This, then, is a live life now poem, a seize the day poem. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 363 — Item Fifty-Seven — RED HOT TEARS And there are moments ... Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 364 — Item Fifty-Eight — WALKING AROUND MY CITY The familiar experienced as defamiliarization. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 365 — Item Fifty-Nine — ICE CREAM BRAIN A brain damage poem. If not death, then a siege, and ice cream city, quite possibly, no match at all for the besieging sun. The radiation has already made its impact. The enemy is already within the gate. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 366 — Item Sixty — THE BIG DOOR Annihilation conceptualized: death as a big door. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 367 — Item Sixty-One — ON HIS  BLINDNESS Visually impaired and, quite possibly, destined to go blind within the year. Blindness, if blindness, as a prelude to death. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 369 — Item Sixty-Two — MYTHOLOGIES A product not, as far as I've noticed, to be found on the supermarket shelves. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 370 — Item Sixty-Three — THE EGOTIST DYING The self-obsession of a dying man: death conceived of as an act of selfishness. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 371 — Item Sixty-Four — BLIND MEN CAN STILL EAT MARZIPAN All is not lost. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 372 — Item Sixty-Five — KITES Nostalgia, sorrow, loss. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 373 — Item Sixty-Six — IN THE LAND OF BIG BROCCOLI In the land of big broccoli, in New Zealand, far from the winter in Japan, there is, amongst other things, broccoli. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 375 — Item Sixty-Seven — THE ACTIVE CHILD Someone's daughter, not yet quite two years of age. Miss Energy Bundle, Miss Total Personality, death refuted by the instant. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 377 — Item Sixty-Eight — PROGERIA Accelerated aging, a problem which is not ours. But there is a problem, my love. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 379 — Item Sixty-Nine — CORNFLAKES The routine demands, and must be catered for. Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 380 — Item Seventy — THIS WAR IN IRAQ And all this other stuff, history, public events, the ongoing life of the world, given and to come, the future and the past — what exactly is that to me, right now? Death poetry in death peotry miscellany Page 381 — Item Seventy-One — MY CONCEPTUAL SIEVE Before death, dissolution. Working with a partial brain.

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