too much



I learn today from the NYTimes that Chess is on the wane, finished



so goeth the record label, so goeth the game



dead like the Delta Blues



but this is ephemera, all of it



because the other story in the Times today was



about a crushed blue baby stroller, a toddler's shoe



in the road,



a girl and her son, and her young friend, run down and killed



on Atlantic Avenue in Cypress Hills, near the border of Brooklyn and Queens.



by a drug-addled 25-yr. old male individual



driving - or shall we say rampaging - in



his father's black Jeep Cherokee.



10 blocks after killing those poor people



he crashed into the back of a semi-, severed



part of his hand, bled profusely,



resisted the efforts of people



who came to his assistance,



fomented an angry mob,



and finally



had to be restrained by police.



the Times article goes on to say



that this apparently monstrous individual's



family has been worried about him



for a quite some time now



Why must the world be so pregnant with perpetual violence, insanity, stupidity,

and death?



Why?