'It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because
there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.
Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say
anything or want anything ever again. Everything is
supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it
always is, except for the birds.
ÊÊAnd what do the birds say? All there is to say about
a massacre, things like 'Poo-tee-weet?'

Kurt Vonnegut
'Slaughterhouse Five'

(SH5 reintrouduced to me by Guido Henneboehl)