In closing we lost the only voice of the left. In the later half of the past century there was only one man that made sense of it all. He was a profit, a derelict and a criminal. None of these things are difficult to accomplish given the state of things of our united states. But HST probably was the last icon. Musicians and artists don't exist anymore, we're all just bill boards and road signs. This dead son of a bitch, as his ashes still dust the dry lands of Colorado, this man could not be bought.
It is not my aim to sound depressive but there is no hope left. The well has gone dry. HST wrote about the ashes of our great nation, he made prose out of a trail of smoke, he wrote of what the flame once looked like for younger generations that never saw the lit candle.
HST was a drunk and a fighter. All writers are. And he was probably one of the most humble men to ever be published. The most specific evidence to support this is in that he never wrote of woman. And everyman prides himself on his understanding of women, and every writer feels obligated to share his understandings. HST never wrote of women. And no man that I've known of has truly understood those beautiful vessels of life, those beautiful transient tits and ass.
This life is a zombie movie and it's all just a matter of time before we turn. Those that believe in aesthetics hold and fight and struggle to stay lucid. But as the zombie franchise goes sooner or later we all become infected. We all become mindless. We all become nothing. I feel HST explained to his minions the cruel realities of living and breathing. He taught me how cruel and mean being old and American can be. He taught me this before I gave up. And it cushioned the fall.
"Shoot them in the head and they go down permanently... America sorts its shit out"--Dawn of the Dead.
HST please remember me. Please pray for me, as I am a young man alive and in troubled times.
"I'm still looking for that steep hill in Vegas that Poets write of; where you can see the past and find comfort."
We[heart]HST.