Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
Peter is becoming hysterical in his hypochondria. The appearance of a little red spot on his stomach has him deciding a list of songs to be played at his funeral. Nina Simone’s Mister Bojangles to kick things off? No, something more celebratory like Teenage Kicks by the Undertones. Christ, he isn’t John Peel — what’s he thinking of? And why celebratory? What’s to celebrate in an unfulfilled life cut short by cancer? Why not go the whole hog and have Louis Armstrong singing What a Wonderful World? No, it would need to be a miserablist song, one designed to encourage tears; that would be fitting and cathartic.
By Alan McCormick.