Strumming Through Middle Age

By Elias Sassoon

So what’s middle age anyway except a state of mind that some struggle to get through and overcome. Here’s a collection of poems that deals with the everything that come with it. The book opens with: STRUMMING THROUGH MIDDLE AGE. “Strumming as in humming, humming as in thumbing, thumbing as in reclining through life without the will to sit up. Passing shapes, passing figures, stick figures, strumming by, running by. Running? Really running, not strumming. Man on your left, lady on your right, running. Gone today, gone tomorrow. Whose strumming now? Me, you, him? Whose humming, me, you, him? Whose doing anything? Me, you, him? Who cares, don’t care, fail to care. So strumming, running, humming, strumming, through, life, and, failing to care, bare, or witness the stare, failing to care and strumming.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 17, 2014
• ISBN: 9781304947802

Elias Sassoon

Elias Sassoon is the author of approximately, roughly, terminally twenty-five works that include short story collections, novels, poetry collections and non-fiction, essay collections. While producing his writing by night, he has earned his daily wage in honest labor that ranges from professions like teacher/bathroom attendant to a door-to-door bible salesman/fish cleaner and everything in between. Elias continues to work hard, grinding out the words and turning them into literary gems, or if you prefer, literary pearls of wisdom. He lives with his wife, two children and a dog-named Brandon in a suburban area in the vicinity of the great Metropolis known as New York City. There he prepares barbecue dinners for neighbors and friends, roams the area for yard sales, watches flies and other moving insect life die in his backward where he also sits on a metal beach chair deciding on the future of the world as we know it.

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Strumming Through Middle Age

Strumming Through Middle Age

A Collection of Poems

by

Elias Sassoon

Strumming Through Middle Age

ISBN: 978-1-304-94780-2

Copyright © 2014  by Elias Sassoon

All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or, other means, now known or hereafter invented, including xerography, photocopying and recording, or in any information storage  or retrieval systems, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher. This is a work of non-fiction.

First Printing: May 2014

Dedication

To myself for the perseverance that I’ve shown in continuing to write creatively despite the fact that the world at large has never given a darn about any of it. I think that deserves a slap on the back, don’t you?

Table Of Contents

Preface

Strumming Through Middle Age

Chapter 1

Fleeting Glimpses Of Light That’s Fleeting

Creatures, Friends, Acquaintances, Etc.

Attitudes, Friends, Squashed In The Middle

Spotted Lights, Passing Lights

Chapter 2

Stoic

Man Again, Stoic Again

Age Means Nothing

Bones Leaching, Bones-Calcifying

Thick-Brow Man Waking Up

Comparisons

Around And Around, Upside Down

Naive One Is Everything

Chapter 3

Environment To Work, Dirty, Dirtier, Dirtiest

Wonder, Often

Back-Forth, Forth-Back

Age Is Me

Sinking In The Penile Projectile

Black And White, Easier Than Green And Pink

Chiseled Into Chair

From The Border, Over The Border

Be Me Up, Tolerance

Cataloging Along The Middle Plane

Chapter 4

Cheery-Faced Cherub

Mistakes, Making Them

Difference Now And Then

Corporate World In The Mature Eye

Work: So Many Years, So Little Understanding

I Am A Man Seeking To Be A Man One Day

Reminders

Seeking Artistic Endeavors,

Receiving Artistic Smacks In The Face

Burying Self Within The Confines

Dollar Value:

My Existence

Inside Or Out

Chapter 5

3rd Grade/Now Grade

Looking, Thinking, Believing

For Him, Death As Better

Brightness, Somewhere, Brightness

Flashing Lights

Kid At Work, Moron

Diary Keeping, Being Kept

Pleasure In What?

Attempting To Be Happy

People Telling Me

Double-Visioned Portraits

Chapter 6

Historical Analysis In Retrograde

Perfect Day

Middle Aged Insect

Random Access Thoughts/Questions

Life As A Program On The Computer

Big Man In Small Pond Of Life

Seeing Crap/Avoiding Crap

Women In The Cycle

Sweeping, Dusting, Vacuuming, A Lady, Woman, Girl

Women, Feeling The Effects

Chapter 7

Perception Of Money In Body Parts

I Am A Bolder In The Sands Of The Sahara

Putting The Brain On Hold

Chapter 8

Laying In Vomit, Bird Droppings And Various Other Acute Substances

Dreaming On/Dreaming Dead

Lonely, Just A Lonely Waif

Strumming Through Middle Age

PREFACE

Strumming Through Middle Age

Strumming as in humming,

humming as in thumbing,

thumbing as in reclining through life without the will to