https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:41:43 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/effinger-george/74991/ https://wist.info/effinger-george/74991/#respond Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:30:23 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=74991 What we’re here for
is death
Somebody accidentally
wound us up
(“I told you
to leave that alone”)
and we must
wait
to run down.

George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) American author [a.k.a. O. Neimand, Susan Doenim]
Poem (1972), “Things Go Better, Orbit 11 [ed. Damon Knight]
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Collected in Effinger, Mixed Feelings (1974). ]]> https://wist.info/effinger-george/74991/feed/ 0 74991