Regarding the previous post:
I listened to Amanda Palmer’s “The Killing Type” this morning.
Elsewhere, I read her explain one lyric: “i once stepped on a dying bird.”
It was her explanation that brought all of this to mind. It’s not often I write from that sort of inspiration, but there it is, today. (It’s not often I write the why behind a piece, either, but considering the way I read the why behind that lyric, it seems exactly appropriate today.)