A few years ago I wrote this poem about my, erm, occasional yet very close friend. The year (1979) is a reference to the Smashing Pumpkins song, btw.

Kyle 1979

This is (cleaned up) audio from a recent YouTube reading of Shakespeare's Sonnet 30 that I did...

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unus’d to flow,
For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night,
And weep afresh love’s long since cancell’d woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish’d sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor’d and sorrows end.
Text found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_30
Pic of Original Poem By William Shakespeare - http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/cid032, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45488012

Sonnet 30 by Shakespeare

Poems, read by Brian Thedell. NeonDesireline.com

Brian David Thedell