God bless you, Dr. Kevorkian (21 page)

cozy forever was in a prison

In a cell, he said, he

wouldn't give a darn how much time was passing by. Actually, he used the

word, wouldn't give a good

"shit" how much time was passing by. His conversation is still liberally spinkled with the

"n" word for African-Americans, despite Saint Peter's pleas that he, for the love God, pipe the hell down. He said he never would have shot "the big n," meaning Dr. King, if he'd known the bullet would make what "the big n" said and fought for so effing famous all over the effing world. "Because of me," he said, "little white children are

taught that

big

was some

o o o

kind of American hero, like George effing Because of my little old bullet," he said, "the shit big

said has been carved into marble monuments and inlaid with effing gold, I hear." This is

in the effing state-of-the-art

o O

lethal injection facility in Huntsville, signing off.

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during my

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near-death experience, I got to interview William Shakespeare. We did not hit it off. He said the dialect I spoke was the ugliest English he had ever heard, "fit to split the ears of groundlings." He asked it had a

name, and I said, "Indianapolis." I congratulated him on all the Oscars the movie
Shakespeare

Love
had won, since it had his play
Romeo
and Juliet
as its

He said of the Oscars, and of the movie itself, "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

I asked him point-blank if he had written all the 59