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DISCLAIMER!
This isn’t actually being annotated by my class; it’s summer, for Chrissakes! On this account, I’m using the “Class Page” as a personal interpretation with subjective and esoteric interpretations and personal anecdotes.
I do have a teacher account and a school account and will be using both this fall, will keep you posted.
I literally have this poem on my wall:
This has got to be the same mass-produced framed version referenced in the liner notes of Brand New’s The Devil and God—
2nd verse adapted from ‘If’ by r. Kipling and how it used to hang from my father’s wall.
Anyway, let’s get started, shall we?
Famously murdered at 40 outside his NYC apartment, John Lennon was, IMO, kinda a wanker… but he didn’t deserve to die, now, did he?
Sid, of Sex Pistols fame, who was 21 when he died from a heroin O.D. (and pretty obvious mental health issues)
Jeff, who was 30 when he drowned in the Wolf River, a tributary of the Mississippi
Robert Johnson, poisoned by a jealous lover at 27… okay, maybe there’s something to this club, LOL
As in, Nick, who died from the standard overdose at 26
