{"id":274,"date":"2014-01-30T17:25:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T17:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/wordpress_marcus\/?page_id=274"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:40:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:40:17","slug":"beys-elegy-2012","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/?page_id=274","title":{"rendered":"Bey&#8217;s Elegy, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Marcus writes (October 2012):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;My good friend the irish poet Martin Burke with his press Delphic Books 21 has just published my Bey&#8217;s Elegy written at the request of my family in Peru. In addition to the title poem (8 pages) there are 35 pages of work written over the last year. All 21 copies are being donated to public libraries in Belgium.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Martin would like to publish an expanded version of this book on the internet as a special issue of his magazine The Green Door.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>MEIN VATER LEBT<\/em><br \/>\nto Platon Alexiades<\/p>\n<p>Mike was a long time in the hut<br \/>\nfor his final interrogation<br \/>\nby the German officers<br \/>\nbefore his release.<\/p>\n<p>When he finally came out<br \/>\nand I took him in my arms &#8211;<br \/>\nthe thin young man in the pale brown sweater &#8211;<br \/>\nI knew at last death is an illusion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mein Vater lebt, <\/em>I proudly announced<br \/>\nto the plump female with the horsewhip<br \/>\nwho hadn&#8217;t wanted to believe me,<br \/>\nas we turned and walked downhill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You must stick to your agreements<br \/>\nfrom now on, papa&#8217; warned him,<br \/>\n&#8216;no more unexplained disappearances<br \/>\ninto the nebulous atrophy of war.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Although it was a dream,<br \/>\nI still feel him in my arms,<br \/>\nthat warm young muscular body,<br \/>\nglad to be in the land of the living.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written on my seventy-third birthday.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus writes (October 2012): &#8220;My good friend the irish poet Martin Burke with his press Delphic Books 21 has just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-274","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}