Barry Newman - d. June 11th 2023

Yes, there were scripted cases,
acquittals, legal escapology,
but let me tell the whole truth:
you were the sum of bricks,
a screen dream of a house,
a career, a vanishing point. 

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Angela Thorne - d. June 16th 2023

Comedy empires fall and rise,
leaving superannuated troupes
full of Frobishers and Truscotts
to surface on Dave and UK Gold,
each a dim mimeograph of you,
approximate in feed, line and cue.

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Glenda Jackson - d. June 15th 2023

The role calls for make-up; no need
when you already inhabit the face,
the gesture, the manner; acting as fact.
 
The role calls for dialogue; no need
when you already speak strength,
tragedy, comedy, conscience; a class act.

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Cormac McCarthy - d. June 13th 2023

Write me the joys of privation
or mutilation where words are
limbs made to be pulled apart
and gnawed upon and show me
a gun loaded with two ideas
one for you and one for me. 

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Silvio Berlusconi - d. June 12th 2023

È su ogni canale -
in seguito; tini
di olio d'oliva, montagne
di Viagra, soldi, ragazze.
La festa è finita,
anche se per alcuni
Non finisce mai.

It’s on every channel -

the aftermath; vats
of olive oil, mountains
of Viagra, money, girls.
The party’s over,
though for some
it never ends.

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Roger Squires ('Rufus') - d. June 1st 2023

The puzzle does not stop;
a clue to you is in my head,
unsolved, cryptically alive.
1 Down - Gold chops,
Pepsi shaken - he’s dead!
(6, 3, 5) 

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Astrud Gilberto - d. June 5th 2023

I am in a place I can never go,
a benevolent sun on my back.
A voice whispers a spell; rhythm,
becomes a charm, like the shuffle
of feet on sand, and all at once
the world is warm, and young,
and lovely. 

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Cynthia Weil - d. June 1st 2023

Something beautiful’s dying;
the last notes of an old song,
the sound of a lover crying
for you as you leave, the wrong
tune on their lips, but still trying,
even if nobody else sings along.

Read about Cynthia Weil here