Augustine and Axl

St. Augustine says that God listens to our prayers when we are at our most abject. Is that comforting, or just perverse?

Yesterday was Axl Rose's birthday, I think. There's a star that both he and I thought would go on shining forever! Now he's 43, and where has all the time gone? He's waiting for a train that'll never come. Before you know it, he'll be 90, and a cicada, and no one will remember him but me - the crazy septigenarian who loved him when she was 9.