Death as Smooth as a Baby   He’d have the gold jabbed into his knee, it would spread golden pain inside his kneecap, gold and arthritis would battle it out in a cramped arena of nerve-endings; and the gold would win, at least for a while, so he’d keep coming back for more— good as gold, some days, and mobile, but running out of steam. At home in Australia, but always White Russian, and stuck in a monarchist dream.   The last day of his life we sat by his bed, a hospital where night and day revolved around the…

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