the glamourous and the grotesque,
the menace and the mince, kissing
a foe’s forehead, half-man, half-nelson,
your whole life a public warning.
Monday 31 July 2023
Adrian Street - d. July 24th 2023
the glamourous and the grotesque,
the menace and the mince, kissing
a foe’s forehead, half-man, half-nelson,
your whole life a public warning.
Sinéad O'Connor - d. July 26th 2023
turns the unsayable into art.
Sing it now; they cannot silence
what was truth from the start,
the tenderness and defiance
that made you thief of my heart.
Trevor Francis - d. July 24th 2023
almost disbelieving in himself
as the goal sucks in man and ball
and spits both out. The game goes
from simple to complicated in a
moment, and for a million reasons.
George Alagiah - d. July 24th 2023
in another place I cannot pronounce.
Channels jostle - Fox, Bloomberg,
CNN - and there you are, at ease
in an awkward moment, speaking
like sunshine in service of the world.
Vince Hill - d. July 22nd 2023
the Talk of the Town, cuffed and ruffed
and smooth as velour. Maybe your songs
don’t matter now, but they are the sound
of stage lights dimming, clean and bright,
almost ready to be forgotten, but not quite.
Tony Bennett - d. July 21st 2023
a voice like brandy and cigars,
jolting standards out of sleep
with jazz, and the unexpected.
That world passes, but not before
you climb halfway to the stars.
Jane Birkin - d. July 16th 2023
an ecstatic song. Love is a fever
with no cure except a little death,
but we loved you…me neither.
Sunday 2 July 2023
Alan Arkin - d. June 29th 2023
these days; a look like milk turning.
You open your mouth and I never know
if it’s going to be filth or
philosophy,
little murders of language and light.
little murders of language and light.
Ann Leslie - d. June 25th 2023
using drunken hacks for cover, running
with warlords and rebels, keeping men
out of a job with unspikeable stories.
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