The Rwandan Dead

News photo of the Rwandan dead bobbing naked at the base of waterfall. Wide hips and narrow shoulders, surely a young woman once sexually active. No solution to death’s finality. Is the production and distribution of food and other essential services fragile or deeply embedded. Can or cannot the economy support the growing or diminishing population. The Road Warrior, however shallow, attracts for its vision of social breakdown and the sources of regeneration. Of course Jane Jacobs is more complex and compelling. The Rwandan dead had dalliances and alliances. It is the indignity of their exposure and the rapid decay of their former lives, mere mulch, fertilizer for wild vegetation. Molecular bonds loosening and joining new forms. How do the vast darkness extending to the ends of the expanding universe and the temporal light of human consciousness interact to make the world?