"Excitable Boy" Warren Zevon is dead at 56. Leni Reifenstahl, director of Triumph of the Will and Olympia, is dead at 101. I was a fan of both. Leni's death was reported on NPR just as I sat down to write a word or two about Warren. An odd bit of synchronicity that Zevon would have appreciated, I think. His songs had a cinematic sensibility and her films a sort of transcendent lyricism, tho' her art served the Nazis. Both of them lived large, and suffered the consequences of their choices in life with apparent equanimity. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Accidentally like a Martyr
The phone don't ring
And the sun refused to shine
Never thought I'd have to pay so dearly
For what was already mine
For such a long, long time
We made mad love
Shadow love
Random love
And abandoned love
Accidentally like a martyr
The hurt gets worse and the heart gets harder
The days slide by
Should have done, should have done, we all sigh
Never thought I'd ever be so lonely
After such a long, long time
Time out of mind
We made mad love
Shadow love
Random love
And abandoned love
Accidentally like a martyr
The hurt gets worse and the heart gets harder
Warren Zevon
8:30:56 AM 
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