[00:13.181]Death will be unlike the night-times when we lie awake thinking of death
[00:18.587]Death will be unlike the Spanish maracas that rattle inside your last breath
[00:27.446]Death will be unlike the Mexican festivals, skeletons wearing top hats
[00:33.160]Death will be unlike the brownstone apartments that dynamite or dereliction collapse
[00:41.800]Death will be unlike the mandolin the hangman relaxes by playing
[00:47.523]Death will be unlike the Hound of the Baskervilles, chilling the moors with its baying
[00:54.904]Death will be unlike the British museum, its bodies from peat bogs and bones
[01:00.392]Death will be unlike the curse of the mummy that turns the explorers to stone
[01:09.037]Death will be unlike the great roller coaster, a plunge from a boast to a scream
[01:14.696]Death will be unlike mahogany coffins great pianists play in their wildest strangest dreams
[01:22.261]Death will be unlike a garden in autumn where poets can sit and compose
[01:27.487]Death will be unlike the granite memorials where memories wither in rows
[01:34.624]Death will be unlike the charge of the Light Brigade Alfred Lord Tennyson rhymed
[01:40.516]Death will be unlike the thin piece of paper that Reagan and Gorbachov sign
[01:49.547]Death will be unlike the hospital bedside with Novocain needles and cards
[01:55.164]Death will be unlike the great day of judgement when God the headmaster presents the awards
[02:00.783]Death will be unlike the marriage that bickers ’til death us do part
[02:06.666]Death will be unlike the dreams of the young man who sang ‘Love will tear us apart’
[02:13.859]Death will be unlike TV documentaries showing us life from outside
[02:20.237]Death will be unlike the Buddhist nirvana the moth seems to seek in the light
[02:27.341]Death will be unlike the Cities of crystal they build in a few grains of smack
[02:33.748]Death will be unlike the long picture window the coffin looks through to a widow in black
[02:45.484]Death will be unlike a room full of spiders all clinging together and crying
[02:51.305]Death will be unlike the wedding guest’s story, the ship drifting lost and the dead sailors sighing
[03:00.142]Death will be unlike the din in the steeple when cholera poisons the village
[03:05.988]Death will be unlike the illumination that Tolstoy provided for poor Ivan Illych
[03:14.935]Death will be unlike the wrinkling sea children glimpse through the chinks in the boardwalk
[03:20.614]Death will be unlike the magical land of ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’
[03:28.102]Death will be unlike the treacherous virus that murders the lovers with AIDS
[03:33.787]Death will be unlike the phantoms of freedom that lead the crowd over the barricades
[03:43.339]Death will be unlike the night thoughts of ‘Late Call’ when ministers stop being cosy
[03:48.418]Death will be unlike ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ co-starring Bela Lugosi
[03:54.419]Death will be unlike the bulge of the mouse inside the boa constrictor
[04:00.614]Death will be unlike that drunkard the phoenix, so tight on the moonshine of golden elixirs
[04:06.235]Death will be unlike that violent pornography, dear to the Marquis de Sade
[04:12.552]Death will be unlike the last stitch of clothing the stripper discards as her nipples grow hard
[04:20.086]Death will be unlike the bankrupt, handing over the keys to his house
[04:26.400]Death will be unlike the last day of summer, when insects grow stupid and swallows fly south
[04:38.303]Death will be unlike the skull of a merchant that slants through the portrait by Holbein
[04:44.278]Death will be unlike that strange proposition on silence, the Tractatus of Wittgenstein
[04:53.297]Death will be unlike your holiday snaps when the camera lets in the light
[04:58.794]Death will be unlike the honest-but-cold-blooded bank clerk whose hobby is homocide
[05:06.574]Death will be unlike the hands of the clock, coming together at midnight
[05:12.203]Death will be unlike the grim amputations of medical students larking on rag night
[05:19.699]Death will be unlike the hijacker’s voice in the heads of air traffic controllers
[05:25.462]Death will be unlike the sea as it thunders on Liv Ullman vanishing under the rollers
[05:34.658]Death will be unlike the abbey the pilgrims all saw when they prayed
[05:40.471]Death will be unlike the unholy land at the end of the Children’s Crusade
[05:46.620]Death will be unlike the hell in Huis Clos Mr Sartre informs is just other people
[05:52.117]Death will be unlike the travelling salesman who woke up one morning transformed to a beetle
[05:58.140]Death will be unlike 2001, the room at the end of the ride
[06:04.239]Death will be unlike the wrath that Charles Bronson let loose on the Lower East Side
[06:11.735]Death will be unlike the House of the Shades the dog Cerberus guarded for Hades his master
[06:17.359]And death will be unlike that lesson on Infallibility, the Chernobyl disaster
[06:23.080]And death will be unlike the empty career of the temp’s vacillations gone permanent
[06:29.131]Death will be unlike the unlucky omens the clairvoyant reads in the meaningless firmament
[06:37.507]In the meaningless firmament
[06:41.424]What will death (what will death)
[06:45.869]Be like? (be like?)
[06:50.423]What will death (what will death)
[06:54.888]Be like? (be like?)
[06:59.527]Death will be like –