“Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea."
-Mina Loy
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
-William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5
For the Anniversary of My Death
Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me
And the silence will set out
Tireless traveler
Like the beam of a lightless star
Then I will no longer
Find myself in life as in a strange garment
Surprised at the earth
And the love of one woman
And the shamelessness of men
As today writing after three days of rain
Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease
And bowing not knowing to what
-W.S. Merwin
Favourite Visual Artist
Wassily Kandinsky, Salvador Dali, Picasso's Blue and Rose Periods, Vincent Van Gogh
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Coheed & Cambria, Pink Floyd, Mozart, Modest Mouse, Paganini, Mastodon, Jaco Pastorius, Lord Huron, Hall & Oates
Favourite Books
Herodotus' The Persian Wars, Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Shakespeare's Macbeth & Hamlet, Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
Favourite Writers
Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman, William Faulkner, Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin, H.P. Lovecraft, W.B. Yeats, Haruki Murakami
Favourite Games
Arkham Knight (and Asylum and City), Skyrim, Spider-man, Shadow of the Colossus, Apex Legends
Favourite Gaming Platform
PS4, My PSN is: mu_kertis
Tools of the Trade
Black pen & lined paper
Other Interests
Bass guitar, Linguistics, History, Natural Sciences, Music Theory, Philosophy