Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (1990)An Intuition of Mortality
"What ever became of the moment when one first knew about death
there must have been one
a moment
In childhood
when it first occurred to you you dont go on forever
it must have been shattering
stamped into ones memory
and yet i cant remember it .
it never occurred to me at all
we must be born with an intuition of mortality
before we know the word for it
before we know there are words
and yet out we come bloody and swollen
with the knowledge that for all the points of a compass
theres only one direction
and time
its only measure "