<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460768" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0314 Executive Decision</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Look! now briefly, mortal living head -<br>As severed from thy now so lifeless limbs<br>In brief and, who knows, truthful, godly view, <br>So solemn, oncely, rare - that fleshly instrument<br>That thou hath used, misused…<br>And learn this last of life’s live lessons, quick and dread<br>In these few seconds of a living death…’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Dean John Donne might have wrung out<br>that detail, had he known it – tolled<br>his solemn, tortured, feargod, ringing knell <br> - had he but known this ‘metaphysical’ quaint fact: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">that, when the executioner’s sharp axeblade<br>slices through your neck with such finality, <br>the head maintains its human faculties<br>for eight brief seconds after body falls; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the executioner, it’s said, with great formality, then<br>takes hold that still-life head by its warm hair, <br>and turns it round with all solemnity, <br>to gaze its last repentence or regret<br>upon its frail accomplice on life’s way; <br>the gathered audience awed to silent, ice-cold heart..<br>last freeze-frame photo of an undeveloped film.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This solemn final courtesy of soul to soul<br>I’ll leave to metaphysicals, to speak life whole.</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=460768" data-title="0314 Executive Decision de Michael Shepherd" data-description="‘Look! now briefly, mortal living head - As severed from thy now so lifeless limbs In brief and, who knows, truthful, godly view, So solemn, oncely, rare - that fleshly instrument That thou hath used, misused… And learn this last of life’s ..."></div> </div> </div>

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