each one; or worse, perhaps we will justify our future slaughter by
saying that it doesn't matter in the least how many cells we kill,
since in a healthy person each dead individual cell is instantly
replaced, and therefore no individual cell has any importance
whatsoever. No, no, every man of true feeling knows that human
life is an absolute; every man of true feeling knows also that
whenever a single cell dies, it is appropriate that all mankind cries;
that to be decent the mourning ought to be general and universal,
and the funeral home' crowded to capacity; that the line of honor–
ary pallbearers should stretch as far as the furthermost horizon,
while entire peoples get drunk at the wake; and as if by some
earnest song or poem on one of the many serious subjects relating
to the welfare of all mankind, the whole world be deeply touched,
Michael Benedikt
MICK JAGGER AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
All of a sudden down there
they're streaming like protoplasm
so eager to go
telling time like lives to work out
only wait
something for all forty thousand of us
or more
he comes on at midnight.
All right.
What a piece
of come-on, so tough
what a mouth, you get it all right.
Moving takes him, he's here, he's
here, he's
no one's bad boy, he's trouble
in
his fag leotard, red scarf, flashing
stud belt Mick makes
