30 Plays
life just kind of empties out
less a deluge than a drought
less a giant mushroom cloud
than an unexploded shell
inside a cell …
“little bombs” (2005)
aimee mann
songmeanings.net user, anderson_council, posted that the lines above reminded him of these poignant lines from t.s. eliot’s poem, the hollow men:
this is the way the world ends
not with a bang but a whimper
i couldn’t agree more. although, in general, i’ve always thought of aimee—whom I saw perform at yoshi’s in san francisco last saturday—as the dorothy parker of music.
