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| 'Skull' (1887) Vincent van Gogh |
- Brian Mendonca
Away, away, away
Thou art not what thou
purposeth to be.
Those gaping jaws
tell not of the loving words
which held us once.
Those gaping holes
speak not of the future
you saw in your seed.
O let me wear
your suit once more
which even now
is intact and unfrayed.
Thy tie beguiles time
with its deep mauve tones.
Six years in the soil
Yet ever present, every day.
Draped in silk, silk remains.
Fokot tokli - anim kai na.
Feni and vinegar
to wash off the mud.
Must this be the way
all men must end?
(24 October 2023
Graveyard
St. Andrew's church, Vasco)
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Exhuming of the remains of Mr. Alex George Mendonca.
Pic courtesy, Van Gogh museum.
Fokot tokli (Konkani): Keep only the head.
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