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Poetry Friday

AGAINST ELEGIES

James has cancer. Catherine has cancer. Melvin has AIDS. Whom will I call, and get no answer? My old friends, my new friends who are old, or older, sixty, seventy, take pills before or after dinner. Arthritis scourges them. But irremediable night is farther away from them; they seem to hold it at [...]

October 21st, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Word Play | Comments are closed

Video Poetry (Mad Edition)

Continuing a tradition wherein the cover version of a song is more powerful than the original … or at least different enough that it stands on it’s own as a new work.

GARY JULES/MICHAEL ANDREWS – MAD WORLD

All around me are familiar faces Worn-out places, worn-out faces Bright and early for the daily [...]

April 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Music | Comments are closed

Video Poetry (Always Edition)

BLINK-182 – ALWAYS

I’ve been here before a few times And I’m quite aware we’re dying And your hands, they shake with goodbyes And I’ll take you back if you’d have me

So here I am, I’m trying So here I am, are you ready?

Come on let me hold you, touch you, feel [...]

June 30th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Music, Word Play | Comments are closed

Poetry Friday

HOW COULD I HAVE DOUBTED

I stopped looking for you I stopped waiting for you I stopped dying for you and I started dying for myself

I aged rapidly I became fat in the face and soft in the gut and I forgot that I ever loved you

I was old I had no focus, [...]

March 7th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Word Play | Comments are closed

Tired of pharmacology …

Okay … so I’m not actually studying drugs, but I sure seem to be taking a lot of them.

I’m so tired of taking pills, and I consume at least 11, every day, for various ailments. Anti-depressants, anti-spasmodics, migraine meds, prescription analgesics (non-narcotic), vitamins, and so on.

The worst part is having to take medication [...]

March 15th, 2007 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Life | One comment - (Comments are closed)