Against fist over fist

on innocence, violence, and death

Death is terrible. I don’t wish death on anyone, not even the old; for years now I have watched as both of my grandmothers, heartbroken in the years and decades since the deaths of my grandfathers have talked about wanting to die, about being ready to go. I’ve watched as their bodies have crumbled into illness, their bodies also saying, “we are ready to…