https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/category-1716-week-of-nbsp-10-12-09 en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:18:29 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12009-my-father-s-last-symphony https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12009-my-father-s-last-symphony my father had an old piano made of oak that he’d pile various things on top of. the surface was golden lacquered, soft, and obsessively polished. there was a brass lamp and a bench where old music sheets were stored; the keys traditional black and white, except for the nicotine stains from the many times he’d smoke while banging the keys, writing notes, erasing them, trying to make them into something more than snuffed cigarette butts, and an over-flowing ash tray. I never actually saw him play. when I was twelve he told me the tragedy of Beethoven, how he sawed off the legs of his piano, banged on the keys, ear pressed against the floor to try and get the music out of his head. I never actually saw him play, either. the first song I ever played was one of Beethoven’s. my father taught me and I practiced every day, trying to get the notes just right, banging them, erasing them until my father asked me to stop. eventually he quit smoking and I quit playing but I still buried him; like a thousand used cigarettes like a thousand notes under his bench like a thousand deaf symphonies. ... more Jasmine Mann Jasmine's Poetry Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:32:52 GMT /section-72-jasmine-s-poetry#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12009 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12009 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12009 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12008-born-again-lover https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12008-born-again-lover   Flesh slides  Wetness glides   With the very tip You flip Your skilled tongue   Across the very edge Of my soul   Over    And over        And over again Until I die   Before my reincarnation   Shannon McEwen Love and cheese Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:08:39 GMT /section-653-love-and-cheese#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12008 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12008 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12008 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12017-species-deceasies https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12017-species-deceasies Diaphanous Heliotrope Mercieca, Andrew MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:40:14 GMT /section-709-mosquitobytes-volume-07-irradiated-mdna#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12017 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12017 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12017 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12016-suspend https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12016-suspend Diaphanous Heliotrope Mercieca, Andrew MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:39:32 GMT /section-709-mosquitobytes-volume-07-irradiated-mdna#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12016 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12016 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12016 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12015-verdict https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12015-verdict Diaphanous Heliotrope Mercieca, Andrew MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:37:48 GMT /section-709-mosquitobytes-volume-07-irradiated-mdna#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12015 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12015 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12015 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12014-strapped https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12014-strapped Diaphanous Heliotrope Mercieca, Andrew MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:36:26 GMT /section-709-mosquitobytes-volume-07-irradiated-mdna#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12014 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12014 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12014 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12013-anyone https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12013-anyone Diaphanous Heliotrope Mercieca, Andrew MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:35:07 GMT /section-709-mosquitobytes-volume-07-irradiated-mdna#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12013 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12013 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12013 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12012-charred https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12012-charred Diaphanous Heliotrope Mercieca, Andrew MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:33:52 GMT /section-709-mosquitobytes-volume-07-irradiated-mdna#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12012 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12012 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12012 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12011-manna-from-heathen https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12011-manna-from-heathen Sanctus Effeminatus Mercieca, Andrew MosquitoBytes Volume 13: Silenti etc Amor Verus 2009-2010 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:30:47 GMT /section-745-mosquitobytes-volume-13-silenti-etc-amor-verus-2009-2010#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12011 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12011 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12011 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12005-like-a-leaf https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12005-like-a-leaf Like a leaf tumbling haphazardly upon the mercy and whim of something that can’t be seen or touched I feel its breath pushing me forward then changing directions and pulling me back to where I started to begin again mixing words and colors into gold before I’m bagged up and thrown away to decay as compost   Jennifer Ragan The personal space of Jen Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:32:54 GMT /section-218-the-personal-space-of-jen#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12005 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12005 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12005 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12007-cancer https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12007-cancer When thirty one days seem to pass with the moon through the sky, And the sun lays grounded by fear too weary of light, As stars circle over, I wonder if I've been away... When thirty one seemingly fades through the course of a day. Feeling so much older, and time never softens the view. As days chase the hours, seconds skip a minute or two. The moon ever-waning glides even farther away, As I look upon me I wonder why I even say.... 'Seems so much different, yet I am forever the same.' The moon is my ruler And I, just a pawn in time's game. sinnaminsun 2009 ... more sinnaminsun Sinnaminsun: 2009 Poems Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:30:27 GMT /section-768-sinnaminsun-2009-poems#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12007 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12007 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12007 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12006-ain-t-nothin-like-it https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-12006-ain-t-nothin-like-it   Squishy hugs with chubby arms Long fingers clasped   Around dark strands of hair Cherub face pressed Against a weary shoulder   Before rising Puckered lips Encircling sticky cheeks   Nine and one half smooches Before my heart Melts   Like chocolate When lips part “la u” Shannon McEwen Brats R Us Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:23:54 GMT /section-654-brats-r-us#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/12006 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/12006 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12006