Yvette Mimieux - d. January 17th 2022

A woman steps out of the future,

impossibly fragile, haunting me

across billenia, looking into 

the place where this boy was, 

awakening the Eloi in me, taking 

my hand till the end of time.

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Barry Cryer - d. January 25th 2022

I trace the bones of comedy

up the years, all the way

from lost ghosts of variety

to now: not even one day

without your gag on the lips

of a legend, no theatre, screen

you had not lit with a script,

the joker of the wild routine.

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Meat Loaf - d. January 20th 2022

I see you cavort with jailbait,

sweat-soused in frilly shirt,

leering and pleading, heart

pulsing at the bottom of a pit

- in hell, in heaven. The light

above the dashboard goes out.

I could weep, but I won't do that.

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Hardy Krüger - d. January 19th 2022

Ich singe ein Marschlied für
der gute Deutsche, spielend
Anstand aus der Erinnerung,
Ehre ohne Befehle,
die gelebte Vergangenheit bringen
in die ungeschriebene Gegenwart,
weil jemand musste.

I sing a marching song for

the good German, playing

decency from memory,

honour without orders,

bringing the lived past

to the unscripted present,

because somebody had to.

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Ronnie Spector - d. January 12th 2022

Girls like you can tell what girls like,
what boys like, how to turn heads
every place they go, how yearning
and joy are chords from the same song,
how heartbreak is just a chorus away.

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Peter Bogdanovich - d. January 6th 2022

All I know of small towns

is that they are not small; 

they fill screens and spill

through the cracked lens

of themselves, endlessly

showing and reshowing 

where we have been, 

where we are going.

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Sidney Poitier - d. January 7th 2022

To you, with love, Mister Tibbs;

a life that needed to be lived 

before it could find a marquee.

A soft-hard voice speaks dignity

tough yet warm as Mississippi sun,

not a man of colour, but a man.

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Richard Leakey - d. January 2nd 2022

There is a gorge, 
home to a grave 
wherein remains are laid.
One body, five species:
Homo Audax
Homo Gravis 
Homo Curiosus 
Homo Elephantinum
Homo Humanus

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