Tonight, instead of publishing a poem, I want to remember a friend, someone who was probably the best friend I ever had, and who died a couple of weeks ago. Shaun was someone I could talk about anything with – All the intellectual stuff that just seems to bore most people. We used to discuss Poetry, Art, Music, Philosophy, Religion, History, Science, Mathematics, Photography and so on. Shaun was my teacher and mentor for a lots of stuff in the Arts and Philosophy and Music. I'm listening to "Life Worth Living" by Uncle Tupelo. It took Shaun two years to get me to listen to Uncle Tupelo, but once he got me to listen to it, I liked it and this song particularly resonated with me. I shall also play Fade Into You by Mazzy Star, another band he turned me onto, and a couple of songs from Sufjan Stevens, including one that cuts right to the heart of the matter, because the song, concerns a young woman who dies of cancer, and that's what happened to Shaun a couple of weeks ago. He was so much younger than me and it seems to unfair. I shall finish off with Fleet Foxes, another great band Shaun got me to listen to. If there's another side to this strange mystery called Life after Life flows away from us, then I hope to see you on that other side where we can listen to great music again that no one else seems to like. I miss you immensely every time I hear a song by some band I've never heard before that I know you would like and now I can no longer send it to you, and now I will never get to hear what new and exciting new bands you discover. Perhaps some day, I will finally get my head around that bizarre philosophy you introduced me to: Post-structuralism! Take care mate, wherever you are. Casimir Pulansky Day is playing and the tears are falling. Maybe it just cuts too close to reality. Ah well, Tiger Mountain Peasant Song will be next.