Grange Calveley - d. August 22nd 2021

Here is a dog. Here is a cat

Here is a life undrawn.

Wobbly lines. Wobbly mind.

Wobbly days, all gone.

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Lee 'Scratch' Perry - d. August 29th 2021

You built a boat of sound for us,

a black ark of your imagination,

charting underwater frequencies, 

madness lurking in every channel,  

upsetting the world with iration.

Read about Lee 'Scratch' Perry here

Charlie Watts - d. August 24th 2021

Listen to the engine playing;

fills with no frills, on tempo, 

less-is-all, never straying,

suited and sharp as a hypo,

directing madness from a stool.

Only the hottest can be this cool.

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Don Everly - d. August 21st 2021

The price of love

is what it demanded

from you; to be the half 

that made a whole, 

imperfectly indivisible, 

unaware 

that for the rest of us

half of something 

was everything. 

Read about Don Everly here

Peter Corby - d. August 20th 2021

Late checkout for a dreamer;

now we old guests will break 

shortbread together, cluster 

in crisp slacks at your wake,

drink Nescafé with creamer

in your utilitarian memory; 

a 5-star mind in a 3-star world.

Read about the Corby trouser press here

Sean Lock - d. August 16th 2021

There is no punchline

for you; no one-liner

for a moment’s laughter, 

but your surreal estate,

a deadpan 15 minutes,

then misery ever after.

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Gerd Müller - d. August 15th 2021

Ich bin einmal mit Der Bomber geflogen;

er hielt sich wie ein Paket

aus Gelgnit, unhandlich,

ticken, ticken bevor es explodiert

in Stücke von sechs Metern.

I once flew with Der Bomber;

he held himself like a package

of gelignite, impossible to handle,

ticking, ticking before exploding

to smithereens from six yards.

Read about Gerd Müller here

Nanci Griffith - d. August 13th 2021

I thought I heard 

a lonely sound;

of hope, peace, 

the instruments of 

our common band.

I hoped it was you,

but it was just

another voice

in another room.

Read about Nanci Griffith here

Una Stubbs - d. August 12th 2021

The last time I saw you

was up East; painted cheeks,

spangled eyes, buttoning on 

a smile like a rising moon,

half-waving from the window

of the red double-decker

that carried you away.

Read about Una Stubbs here