There were 100,000 Covid deaths back in May 2020. The New York Times posted their names and a line or two from their obituaries. One obituary line haunted me and haunts me still.
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Berlin - March 8, 2018
I woke up last night – not unusual – I wake up many nights at two or three regardless of wine or coffee – I’ve heard that sleep is disrupted at my age – people joke about it, although it’s not so amusing when it’s dark and one’s mind churns. I try to remember my German lessons, which article, das, der, die – which one adheres to which noun. Then a name becomes stuck. I can’t remember someone’s name a name that would have at one point in the past tripped off my tongue but now it unglues itself and only hours or days later will it pop unbidden into my head and I think I’m coming down with my heritable brand of cognitive decline.
There were 100,000 Covid deaths back in May 2020. The New York Times posted their names and a line or two from their obituaries. One obituary line haunted me and haunts me still.
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