The Verb must broker an agreement between the Subject and the Object.

All of these fellows had birthdays. And days on which they died. Next to the truncated biography is a photo or a painting, and under that another reminder of the day they died and the day the lived. In parenthesis, as if an afterthought or a fun fact, are the number of years they were alive.


October 30, 1821. January 28, 1881. (aged 59)


November 13, 1850. December 2, 1894. (aged 44)


February 2, 1882. January 30, 1941. (aged 58)


August 20, 1890. March 15, 1937 (aged 46)

Food for the worms. Worm farm fodder. There are no political overtones to the fact that we die, making it somehow a refreshing thing to remember, though not poetic by default. Just dead.