Talking Birds
Porcelain wrens, transfers; 2009
... there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like 'Poo-tee-weet?'
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five [Vintage, London 1999]
Copyright © Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1969