TO BE OR NOT TO BE

Experimental mixed-media: poetry plus photo of Swedish-American fashion model Tait Hughes Geijer. Exercise in juxtaposition of forms.

To be or not to be

Author's Note

OK, it's just an experiment. A confluence of photography and poetry. Tell me if you like it or loathe it. :P

Reviews

[Rene Salinas]

I am a purist, I struggle with blending dynamics too much. It is a struggle just when I try song lyrics as that already it is a step too far for me. After saying that the form of your writing is inviting and also the logic behind it as it is a disappearence of words. In reverse so to speak from words to the first breath before the words. All that remain is the pictureof a young girl ? Or lady I am terrible at categorizing with what seems to me an unpleasant time.

From that to the deliberation of significant proportions of Shekspearean terms? I think for me something got lost there or I need a bit more explanation as obviously I am a little thick. If this is a way of declaring that whatever it is your facing the delibiration to exist or or not to as it is in the soliloqui please go for existing and try not to let them feeling interfere.

Not something I would do

Not a bad go in my opinion .

[K. J. Lucas]

Thank you. Like I say it is just an experiment. Maybe I didn't think enough about the title. I didn't have one and I was about to post it. Yesterday I posted a poem set in Elsinore so that just triggered the phrase. :) Oh, and Tait, the photgraphic model is a guy :)

[Rene Salinas]

Oops I am very sorry, there seem to be an androginous thing about the look. I apologise for that.

[K. J. Lucas]

No problem! Hahah :)

[Ayrayen]

I like it. It's simplicity at its finest. I like how it gets shorter to read.
Hope you're faring alright there.

[MomzillaNC]

Actually, I found it an interesting use of language and visual form. You capture the feeling, especially of those angst-ridden, never good enough, unconvinced of our own potentiality teen years; the feeling a life of diminishing returns.

[K. J. Lucas]

Thank you. That's good, 'diminishing returns' I hadn't really thought of it that way, but yes you are right :)

[MomzillaNC]

Right? IDK about that. It's completely subjective on my part. I only know that you perfectly captured the morass of self-doubt, self-loathing, and hunger for more of my own teen years. Happily, from my current point in life, I can say that life does get better, something no one could have convinced me of back then.