Reasons to Like Shakespeare

I watched the Kenneth Branagh's version of Henry V

The actor playing the Duke of York was hefty & bearded

True to life, as I understand it

He rides into the Battle of Agincourt wielding a mace

and proceeds to rain thick armed blows

onto the skulls of British History

He dies fighting, clutching to his slain cousin

a monument to chivalric heroism

I got a soft spot for big bearded bastards

beating the shit out of people

Truth is though,

the battlefield was a woodstock sized mudpit

and having been dismounted

he couldn't heave his heavily armored fat ass up

and drowned there face down in the muck

I got my reasons for liking Shakespeare

Econ Convos

I think it might be better

if I didn't read quite as much

Maybe then I could say things

with some kind of certainty

instead of blathering like an idiot

I tell myself it's worth it

in so far as I'm being sincere

and though sincerity is not truth

I'm still willing to bet

it's the best chance I got

It's pretty obvious why guys

feel like they have to lie their way

into some poor thing's panties

By the sound of me I'd guess

there is no other way

Lou Reed Through The Speakers

The guy on the couch

wearing a Fender shirt

doesn't play

Doesn't know who's in the scene

or where the scene's at

I don't mistake chance encounters

as being any different

than run-ins with old friends

Everything's a shot in the dark

aimed at the future

If you've got to shoot at something

it's probably best

if your target never gets any closer

It never fails

songs come on the radio

Lou Reed sings Walk on the Wild Side

and a few people lip sync along

but none of them look to see

who is doing the black girl's part

decked out in imaginary sequins

or who's taking the cool lead

only who sees them singing

silently

For Future Use

Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the other's death and dying the other's life.

-Heraclitus

The following posts will be catching up,

things have been busy,

I never write at home,

but I've brought things back from outside.