John Peel is dead
This is a day I've long dreaded.
For a month and twenty years I've listened to John Peel's late night music shows. At least a few hours every week. They have been the back- and foreground of all my adult life. His voice is on so many recordings of so many of my favourite songs. You could not hear them anywhere else. We will not hear them anywhere else. It's hard to imagine music ever being as good. But music is a happy death.
every terrible thing
is a relief
even months on end
buried in grief
are easy light times
which have to end
with the coming
of your death friend.
