Need New Body - Show Me Your HeartThe man with the pink daisy boutonniere took the steps to the pulpit two at a time.“First of all, ladies and gentlemen, friends and family of David, let me offer, by way of apology, my sincere preemptive thanks to every one of you for sitting in your seats, and for remaining firmly seated throughout my speech, my eulogy.”He spoke in a high, pinched voice, and enunciated each syllable resolutely and forcefully, as if he were being recorded as raw material for a phonics tape.“You surely know, since you are here, that David Mecke worked in the music industry for more than thirty-five years. This fact is, I believe, handily obtainable in the funeral program printed by the decedent’s family, distributed by hand to all of you as you entered the chapel this afternoon. What is not printed and which should not reasonably be expected to appear in the program is the sidestory, the underpainting, of David Mecke’s career, to which I have born witness, and without which I would be nothing, and it is exactly this area of David Mecke’s life—the blurry, penumbral portion—that I would like to speak upon, that I believe I ought to bend your attention toward. I am aware, of course, that it is sometimes custom for the eulogizer to lightheartedly reiterate the well-known idiosyncrasies and peccadilloes of the eulogized, to entertain the mourning crowd with an intermittent and good-natured ribbing of the deceased—by all convention, I should now be calling David Mecke a stubborn son of a bitch in the most believably lachrymose manner, linking him, through anecdotes, to his famous and dead co-revelers, and praising his faults in order to recall his humanity freshly and unignorably to your minds—but that is what I ought to do, not what I am going to do. If I were to attempt to give you, in words, the quiddity of David Mecke, his whatness or his essence, it would not ring of anything human, and with good reason. I think now and thought of him before as an engine or mechanism of destruction, sin, and unhappiness."[BUY UFO]