SAM VAKNIN Getting Old The sageing flesh, a wrinkled vicedom. The veined reverberation of a life consumed. On corneas imprinted with a thousand dreams, now stage penumbral plays directed by a sight receding and a brain enraged. To fall, as curtains call, to bow the last, rendered a sepia image in a camera obscured, a line of credits, fully exhausted, fully endured.

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about SAM VAKNIN: author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain; How the West Lost the East. He is a columnist for Central Europe Review, PopMatters, and eBookWeb, a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101. Until recently, he served as the economic advisor to the government of Macedonia. Visit Sam's Web site Visit PoetryRepairs.com to search for fine advertising, fine arts, fine entertainment, media, philosophy of publishing, webrings, culture, the ubiquitous and silent literary critique, criticism, theory, and praxis. Here will be E books, commentary, education, in the plain language of essays, interviews, opinion, reviews and as ever that most treacherous language of poems, by poets whose poetry and prose demonstrates which international writers are writing the global creative. Gather with friends and recite poetry over food and wine, light candles in darkened places! PoetryRepairs.com invites your essay on poetry, or on a poet or poets, and, also, essays on all things related to poetry, its theory and its practice. Or, simply comment on the poems here at poetryrepairs.com Submit prose to editor@poetryrepairs.com

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