Elegy

Text of the day: “‘Scattering’, it was the, the poem itself. All the ones, all your suggestions were really morbid…! They were all about death. Or dying. Or, yeah, people being widowed. Illness. And I said, I said, people are going to think we’re willing this thing to fail. But you said, you said death and marriage go hand in hand. You start, the start is about, you commit because of death, not, yeah, not — if more people started thinking about death sooner you said, we’d all fuck up a lot less. (Carrie in Nick Payne’s Elegy)

A Scattering Christopher Reid death Donmar Warehouse Elegy love marriage memory Nick Payne poetry