Hitch, 62

not much can be said that he didn’t say
concerning the passion that he shouted without a moment of
rest
at the forces in this world that he saw to be wrong,
as well as the idiots who claimed to know what was
right---
to see him argue was to reignite within oneself the
love for human conversation &
to see how ideas can be made to be expressed
without the need of bludgeoning another over the head
with a hammer---
that is not to say that he didn’t see fit for the use of force
to stomp out the “evil”
for which even he as a prolific writer, journalist &
staunch militant anti-theist
who had seen aspects of carnage the world over
could find no other way of expressing
except to use that word.

for hitch we have to not stumble a moment
we have to pay tribute by reading his works,
passing them onto others &
continuing the fight
which he fought so well
unparalleled in the ring---
swinging & swinging &
swinging with no
deathbed conversion
without compromise
without any loss of integrity
his defeat took many many rounds
but eventually he was beat
by that one opponent that inevitably wins
no matter who you are
or what you believe.

WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE EXPERIENCED SUCH A VOICE!