Death Of A Decade

By Mu Pi Chan

This book was originally released as a PDF through Project Gutenberg, however due to serious on-going problems with Project Gutenberg it was never made available to the general reader.

This release is includes minor corrections as well as reformating and other stylistic revisions required to render a suitably formatted EPUB.

This book comprises a series of poems written in the second half of 2019 which draw inspiration from the works of James Joyce, William Shakespeare, and Philip Larkin amongst others. These poems cover a wide range of subjects including Brexit, Climate Change, and depression. These poems often involve a mixture of parody, pastiche, and plagiarism.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mu Pi Chan
• Release date: Mar 20, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463530115

Mu Pi Chan

Mu Pi Chan was born in 1959 in a house that was then in the County of Essex, but which now lies within the London Borough of Havering. He was brought up from a very early age just outside Southend-on-Sea (Essex). He spent three years at the University of Kent at Canterbury (Kent), and has subsequently lived In St Albans (Hertfordshire), Guildford (Surrey), and Romsey (Hampshire).Mu Pi Chan has released a number of volumes of poetry (through Project Gutenberg) covering the period 1973 to 2019. Most of Mu Pi Chan's poetry is inspired by the world around him, particularly the natural world and the people of which he is fond. Other sources of inspiration are the works of other poets and books on philosophy, science, and religion. His poems include a number of parodies, jokes and poetic aphorisms based on these readings.Mu Pi Chan firmly believes that writing poetry allows him to release the thoughts in his head which would otherwise drive him mad.

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The Scream Of Consciousness

[The Myriadminded Man]

PART I

However stately and corpulent his frame

However mesmeric his actions,

Down the dark winding stairs

The way to oblivion

Becomes increasingly threadbare.

Because words are falling

And words are tumbling,

The mind's searchlight

Is flitting from idea to idea

Without rest or reflection.

Can i sleep on the beach

On the soft warm sand,

And will the tide wash me

Like mother did

Before she passed on.

PART II

When you consume with relish

The inner ideology

Of the daily organs

That pedal their proprietor lies

Then you are liked the most.

Awful is the silence

Of the slaughtered animals

That line the stomachs

Of the affluent West

And the privileged