R.I.P., Kurt Vonnegut

This is the closest I will ever come to writing an autobiography. I have called it "Slapstick" because it is grotesque, situational poetry -- like the slapstick film comedies, especially those of Laurel and Hardy, of long ago. It is about what life feels like to me. --- KV, from the prologue to his novel Slapstick

Kurt Vonnegut, my favorite writer, died slowly from a fall.

So it goes.