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Sep 20, 2009 18:03

I found out I lost a friend today.




I love you, you ornery old bastard.




We'll miss your wisdom, wit and your godawful attitude. We'll miss your rebellious, incendiary opinions about politics, life and love. We'll miss your preternatural eyes and your riotous gonzo cackling. We'll miss the late-night coffee-table chats about the ultimate nature of reality that kept us quietly pondering for days afterward. We'll miss the know-it-all smirk you emitted whilst rifling through all of our expanded astrological charts. We'll miss making you breakfast at 3 am after long cacophonous nights of swilling cheap, brackish table wine and listening to oddball jazz. We'll miss the incorrigibly filthy shit you'd say when you were one too many whiskeys into the night. We'll miss the relentless chiding we constantly heard for failing to live up to our full potential. We'll miss you leering over coffee tables packed with ashtrays, the odd titty magazine and the multitude of quirky knick-knacks associated with a full and storied life. We'll miss how you miraculously stayed 62 for the last 5 years. We'll miss the captivating spark of keen intellect behind your ironclad sarcastic exterior. We'll miss the simple companionship of sharing drink and song with you. We'll miss the happy creases around your eyes that etched the slow march of time into your tremendous countenance.

But most of all, Old Joe, we'll miss your enthralling yarns that we only half-believed; the outrageous allegories that transported us to a different time and place even when we called bullshit and rolled our eyes, the tales that even at your feeblest made you seem truly larger than life to each and every one of us.

And for that, old friend, there aren't enough thanks in this scarily finite world in which the rest of us continue to live.

I'm crying as I write this. To use your words, I already miss you like crazy you weenie-ass cocksucking piece of shit.


grieving, miss you man, friends, death, joe koester

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