I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'


America (ed. Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1985)


I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I...

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I...

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I...

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I...