<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460315" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To, for, about, because of, Spike Milligan</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spike, we talked of you today.<br>You’ll have to live with that now, I guess -<br>it seems that everyone has<br>a place in their hearts for you.<br>So, like a heap of ‘floral tributes’, <br>they’re all individual, but<br>it makes a very great pile</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For myself, it’s that look on your face<br>that stays – as if you found life just so great a thing<br>that it stupefied you, wondering<br>how to confront it – whether<br>to laugh at it or cry for it<br>(both of which you did so well, <br>that perhaps it didn’t help you much<br>to decide between, so, lucky us, we got both by turns..) <br>and on your face, that quizzical appeal<br>to the rest of us, to help you to decide<br>how to confront life…or sometimes, should we even try? ..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you see, in theatre foyers, <br>those two masks of tragedy and comedy, <br>it could say underneath –<br>‘To Spike Milligan, who knew both’<br>and perhaps people would notice them more and think.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And though you laughed and cried<br>at our mortality like<br>a philosopher who was also<br>a stand-up performer with tears of absurdity in his eyes, <br>it seems we’ve decided that<br>despite how you may be feeling now, <br>we’ve decided in our mortality<br>that you’re immortal. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I guess<br>you’ll just have to live with that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460315" data-title="To, for, about, because of, Spike Milligan de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Spike, we talked of you today. You’ll have to live with that now, I guess - it seems that everyone has a place in their hearts for you. So, like a heap of ‘floral tributes’, they’re all individual, but it makes a very great pile For myse..."></div> </div> </div>

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