Word: morbidity
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...Morbid symptoms...
...latest work derives its title from the symbolic figure of Orion, whose presence frames the book's namesake poem, "Midnight Salvage." The eight-section poems run through pieces of Rich's past, focusing particularly on a college life that, according to Rich, was as "a cemetery is controlled." The morbid metaphor originates in this piece, which makes backhanded allusions to John Keats and Antonio Gramsci, who are buried in the same cemetery in Rome. Through Rich's instinctive search for the figure of Orion, listeners and readers voyage with the poet through a life of activism, looking through "history...
While the album isn't a breakout masterpiece, Francine is a band that knows what its listeners want-quirky background songs that sound happy but have morbid depressing lyrics. Forty on a Fall Day would be a better album if it were shorter and more inventive, but count Francine as one more contribution to the seemingly endless supply of indie...
Whenever I talk about death with my family and friends, they think I am being morbid. As you so rightly said, death is the only certainty in life, and yet we refuse to talk about it. We plan for the smallest journeys to known places but are not willing to prepare for the journey in death to an unknown destination. JAGS NARWANI Lawrenceville...
...know this because, in keeping with a morbid convention in media coverage of executions, the condemned person's final meal has already been broadcast to the world by the wire services. And soon it will find its way onto what may be the most macabre culinary site on the Web: The Texas Department of Criminal Justice?s Final Meal Requests page...