Goodbye Christopher Hitchens.

Not just the loss of a great man, but the loss of a man who personifies, justifies and gives humanity to the fight for reason. Luckily for us he wrote and spoke of the things he cared, and we can at least revisit him in books and on video. I advise reading and watching all you can.

M

Last of the lost Cosmonauts

I saw a man take his soul,

And smash it on a table top,

Shards caught in his clothes and hair,

He walked upright, but only through habit,

And he spoke, but only by mimicking,

He sleeps sound, like the way babies don't.

This bleak and comforting view from Worlds End,

Holds me above it,

Crawling through pipes and tunnels underground,

I found a place I could nearly be happy.

M