I heard earlier this evening that the writer Al Weisel, known to the blogging world as Jon Swift, has died. More at skippy the bush kangaroo, http://www.xnerg.blogspot.com/

 After reading condolences, I wrote a poem. Normally, I would polish quite a bit, but I wanted to keep it fresh:

It was not kindly death who stopped by,
but the rude interrupter.

It was sunny here in Chicago, and cold
in the day. The night brought the news:
he has died. The light had passed,
the cold remained.