Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Monday, May 05, 2008

Temp Agency

Eventually, nothing of these will remain...

Tyler Durden sez: “Hey, even the Mona Lisa’s falling apart.”

Ozymandias of Egypt
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock’d them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Ozymandias of Egypt was written by the radical, atheist, vegetarian poet (he’s batting 1.000 in my book): Percy Bysshe Shelley
PeeBee sez:
Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few

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Call for reviewers:

My novel, CPR for Dummies, will be released this summer. As erotic and experimental as anything Henry Miller ever put to paper, CPR for Dummies has been called “an orgasmic Left revolt-book;” “a ribald collage of styles, points of view, and blasphemies;” and “as tongue in cheek as Vonnegut and Bukowski.”

I’m looking for writers interested in reviewing CPR for Dummies for a magazine, newspaper, or blog. Serious inquires can be sent to info@mickeyz.net