Kurt Vonnegut - Requiem for the last living thing

Kurt Vonnegut, the great classic of the American counter-culture, has passed away. He was 84.

(NY Times)

Here are the closing lines of a poem written by him - the concluding poem of his last book. The poem is called Requiem:

When the last living thing

has died on account of us,

how poetical it would be

if Earth could say,

in a voice floating up

perhaps

from the floor

of the Grand Canyon,

It is done.

People did not like it here.

Când ultima vietate

Va fi să moară sfârşind şirul nostru al tuturor,

magie sfântă ar fi

dacă Pământul ar putea să spună,

cu un glas plutind în sus spre azur,

poate

de pe întinsul

Marelui Canion,

S-a săvârşit.

Oamenilor aici nu le-a plăcut.

(A Life in Books)

(Sufi)