Living Will

[Tiger the Lion]

Living Will


Carmela,

I thought it fair
to tell you
before the time comes:

A trusted friend
has promised to find you
should I ever be lying
on some death bed
rotting from the inside out.

I'm asking you to be kind;

kiss me on the mouth
and tell me about the multiverse,

how

                                              somewhere we are real.

[dukealien]

Living Will


Carmela,

I thought it fair
to tell you
before the time comes:

A trusted friend
has promised to find you
should I ever be lying
on some death bed
rotting from the inside out.

I'm asking you to be kind;

kiss me on the mouth
and tell me about the multiverse,

how

                                              somewhere we are real.

Very nice, especially the staggered last line.

Then, since I had Wikipedia open, I checked to see if there's a saint or something connected with the name (nope, just Mt. Carmel) and ran across...

Carmella Soprano.  Fits so well, the fictional character and her complex relationship with Tony whose living (?) will this apparently is.  And Tony's sojourn in the strange dimension one season as he lay comatose.  And the likely instructions given to "a trusted friend" by Tony ("You think this is a nice face?  That's good, because it's the last face you'll see...") concerning anyone else.  But in this case, ghosting through the fourth wall, a wish that their complex relationship, indeed their whole complex lives, could be real somewhere.  The Will to live, for Tony was absolute Will incarnate.

And why not?  Sherlock Holmes is certainly there, curled up with his pipe of shag tobacco but needing a cocaine supplier.  They'd hit it off splendidly.

[Tiger the Lion]

Living Will


Carmela,

I thought it fair
to tell you
before the time comes:

A trusted friend
has promised to find you
should I ever be lying
on some death bed
rotting from the inside out.

I'm asking you to be kind;

kiss me on the mouth
and tell me about the multiverse,

how

                                              somewhere we are real.

Very nice, especially the staggered last line.

Then, since I had Wikipedia open, I checked to see if there's a saint or something connected with the name (nope, just Mt. Carmel) and ran across...

Carmella Soprano.  Fits so well, the fictional character and her complex relationship with Tony whose living (?) will this apparently is.  And Tony's sojourn in the strange dimension one season as he lay comatose.  And the likely instructions given to "a trusted friend" by Tony ("You think this is a nice face?  That's good, because it's the last face you'll see...") concerning anyone else.  But in this case, ghosting through the fourth wall, a wish that their complex relationship, indeed their whole complex lives, could be real somewhere.  The Will to live, for Tony was absolute Will incarnate.

And why not?  Sherlock Holmes is certainly there, curled up with his pipe of shag tobacco but needing a cocaine supplier.  They'd hit it off splendidly.

I love this interpretation. It's miles from my intent, but eerily close at the same time. The N has much in common with Tony-- and can do a decent impression. Both Carmela's are a mystery to me.