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Thursday, 9 August 2018

Simon Schuchat: Not Yet Dead Yet: Two Poems

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Untitled | by Sakis Dazanis

Untitled: photo by Sakis Dazanis, 21 March 2018
Simon Schuchat: A Warning  

In memory of Bob Martin

First,
Your hair goes
    Then
Your hearing goes
    Then
Your vision goes
    Then
Your prick goes
    Then
Your knees go
    Then
Your liver goes
    Then
Your lungs go
    Then
Your gums go
    Then
Your nose goes
    Then
Your tennis court goes
    Then
Your nightclub goes
    Then
Your partners go
    Then
Your colleagues go
    Then
Your parents go
    Then
Your children go
    Then
Your friends go
    Then
Your savings go
    Then
Your brakes go
    Then
Your appetite goes
    Then
Your sense of smell goes
    Then
Your sense of humor goes
    Then
Your feet go
    Then
Your toaster goes
    Then
Your teeth go
    Then
Your stamina goes
    Then
Your temper goes
    Then
Your smile goes
    Then
Your calm goes
    Then
Your skin goes
    Then
Your house goes
    Then
Your office goes
    Then
Your balance goes
    Then
Your transmission goes
    Then
Your car goes
    Then
Your wife goes
    Then
Your shoes go
    Then
Your dog goes
    Then
Your tonsils go
    Then
Your fingernails go
    Then
Your eyebrows go
    Then
Your toenails go
    Then
Your drink goes
    Then
Your kidneys go
    Then
Your patrons go
    Then
Your parakeet goes
    Then
Your landline goes
    Then
Your cable goes
    Then
Your signal goes
    Then
Your news goes
    Then
Your education goes
    Then
Your travel goes
    Then
Your tires go
    Then
Your bladder goes
    Then
Your colon goes
    Then
Your shoes go
    Then
Your radio goes
    Then
Your pets go
    Then
Your memory goes
    Then
Your landscape goes
    Then
Your clock goes
    Then
Your broadband goes
    Then
Your Wi-Fi goes
    Then
Your cell goes
    Then
Your wardrobe goes
    Then
Your continence goes
    Then
Your content goes
    Then
Your container goes
    Then
Your patience goes
    Then
Your libido goes
    Then
Your insomnia goes
    Then
Your anger goes
    Then
Your hunger goes
    Then
Your pain goes
    Then
Your boredom goes
    Then
Your nerves go
    Then
Your waiting goes
    Then
Your persistence goes
    Then
Your mailing address goes
    Then
Your mobile goes
    Then
Your locator goes
    Then
Your center goes
    Then
Your core goes
    Then
Your breath goes
    Then
You go

24-25 June 2015

Untitled | by Sakis Dazanis
Untitled: photo by Sakis Dazanis, 3 January 2018

Untitled | by Sakis Dazanis

Untitled: photo by Sakis Dazanis, 6 August 2018

Jaques: 
                          All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It: II. vii, 139-166


Untitled | by bswise

 Still from Shadows, dir. John Cassavetes, 1959: photo by bswise, 22 January 2011

* | by Sakulchai Sikitikul

 Songkhla [Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 2 August 2018

* | by Sakulchai Sikitikul

 Songkhla [Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 2 August 2018

* | by Sakulchai Sikitikul

 Songkhla [Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 2 August 2018

Simon Schuchat: Not Yet Dead President (Homage to Ed Dorn)

So, what denomination will
Be graced with his face?
Surely the three dollar bill

8 August 2018