If the sentence which preceeded this one is ever proven false, then I will live just fine being wrong. It ocurrs to me that the likelyhood of me living the life eternal is slim to nil. I do not greet my (likely) inevitable death with open arms, nor do I have any reason to believe it immenent. But there is substantial evidence that it is likely to happen.
I am not really a pessimist.
Nor even that much of a realist.
What I know myself to be is a thinker.
And this subject has come up, and I'd like to settle it in part.
Almost no one knows what will become of them after they pass, I can't assure that I will, but I can put what I wish to happen after I die.
Well, you still get UK, but see to it that I rule France in spirit. You take it over, and have some kinda weird statue of me preside over France. It could be a modern art sculpture for all I care. Get a day and a city dedicated to me.
Request the song "Best I Am," by Flaw, from the radio, dedicate it to me, and sing along when it comes on.
Long.
I've been running away for far too long
Afraid of what
Afraid of what I know is soon to come
I may not be much of an example right now
But I can give you all of my knowledge on how to get along in this place
Right now all I can say
Is that I will do the best that I can
to be a good example of man
I know one day that you'll understand
you deserve the best that I am
you deserve the best that I am
It's so hard
So hard to think about when I was a child
so angry at life
I blamed the world for such a long long time
But things happened so quickly
some people just go
I needed answers to heal me
I wanted to know how to get by
and now its my turn to say
That I will do the best that I can
to be a good example of man
I know one day that you'll understand
you deserve the best that I am
So I've gotta do the best that I can
to be a good example of man
I know one day that you'll understand
you deserve the best that I am, I am, I am...
This is all for you
(Everything in this world)
(Everything in this world)
This is all for you
(Everything in this world)
(Everything in your world)
Things wont always go right in this life
There's always changes
We'll make it
Thats why I gotta do the best that I can
to be a good example of man
and I know one day that you'll understand
you deserve the best that I am, I am, I am...
I will... I will... I will
I will do the best that I can...
Put 'In Memory of Steven Long' in nice white letters on a black backing at the beginning or end of your second movie, regardless of what the movie is about.
Feel free to name kids after me, male or female.
Watch Cowboy Bebop, and imagine that Spike and I are the same guy.
Could you sift through my writings, and see if anyone would publish any of them?
It would be sweet if you could get a bunch of children to sing the songs from Cannibal! The Musical. Especially were you their choir teacher or something.
Well, damned, I don't want folks going bankrupt on a funeral for me. I picture a few trees, not of the pine variety. Perhaps over a valley, or near a bay, or at the base of a mountain, someplace where some part of nature hits another part of nature.
Quote me, referrence me.
My scattershot poetry would love to be in your music, and my name would love to be in your liner notes. Or the comments of your ID3v2 tag of your MP3.