“We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.”
Paolo Bacigalupi (1972) American science fiction and fantasy writer
"The Pasho", Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2004
“No matter where; of comfort no man speak:
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth”
Variant: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let's choose executors and talk of wills
Source: Richard II
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