M i s h k a    Z a k h a r i n

 

The Official Mishka Zakharin Website

 

 Last Updated:  16 January 2010   

Bio of a Mishka:

 

Option 1 – Hardly True

          Option 2 – Mostly True  – updated Oct 05

          Option 3 – Absolutely, Totally, and Completely True 

Option 4 – Promethian Perspective

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“We still, alas, cannot forestall it—

This dreadful ailment’s heavy toll;

The spleen is what the English call it,

We call it simply Russian soul.”

 

—Alexander Pushkin                         

‘Eugene Onegin’                    

[translator: James E. Falen] 

 

 

Published Works of Mishka Zakharin

Blah, blah, blah… and ‘what have you’…  (sample poetry)

links to other websites

 

Mishka’s MySpace

Mishka at AuthorNation

The Writer’s Box

http://zmishka.blogspot.com/

http://allpoetry.com/MishkaZakharin

 

photo gallery

 

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 Published Works of Mishka Zakharin…    

 

The Spleen of Fiery Dragons   (poetry)  NEW!!

No More Shall Be Said of ThisDaemon Mishka, Volume VI

That Was a Good Two Glopsworth – Daemon Mishka, Volume V

Sex & Death:  Passion’s Welts  (poetry)  

Spectre of Life – Daemon Mishka, Volume IV  (journalish ramblings, poetry) 

Mishka’s Florilegium  (poetry)

Big, Mad, Naughty Monkey God  (poetry)  – ?????? 

Kromeshnik  (poetry)

Bastard Imagery in Shakespeare  (poetry, short fiction, journalish ramblings)

Mishka’s Comedia (2nd Edition)  (poetry) 

Year of the Golden Monkey  - Daemon Mishka, Volume III  (journalish ramblings/poetry/fiction)

Mishka, Mishka  (poetry)

Banana You!    - Daemon Mishka, Volume II  (journalish ramblings)

And Then She Put Her Clothes On and Left…  (poetry)

The Mishkan Book of the Dead  (fiction)

Mishka’s Decameron   (poetry)

Mishka Shakespeare:  The Complete Works  (fiction/drama)

The Mad God   (poetry)             

Possessed By the Daemon Mishka   (journalish ramblings)

Of Gilded Hearts and Girded Loins   (fiction)

Big, Naughty Monkey   (poetry)

Mishka’s Comedia   (poetry) out of print

A Silk Purse From a Sow’s Ear   (poetry ) out of print

  

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The Perfect Lie   (The Fugue of Grushenka, Part 8)

 

She was here again…

(—as she has ever been…!—)

deep down inside—

and then sitting across from me,

acting all… all… unobtrusive…

(—fooling everybody else,

but never each other…!—)

as we talk all around reality…

never quite stepping straight in it—

always ever anybody else…

embraced in our dance of words…

as eyes are caressing over,

hungry with the want of touch…

—and laconic nipplage

protruding into my awareness…

enshrouded in our perfect lie…

(—or our inadequate truth…!?—)

 

…and so I just slapped her in the belly,

and got the hell out of there…

 

 

 

Ode to Musings – #6

 

I am both yin and yang—

though I suppose more yangly

than yinister—

in all of their

consummate cosmology;

 

I am both wave

and particle—

not to mention

a warm, fuzzy

beast of love

in the sack!…

a macrocosm of nothingness,

a microcosm of all—

 

epistemologically speaking,

I’m just your average, everyday,

peasant, avatar, Svengali, bastard beanhead,

spewing forth an over-cooked

and under-digested feast of

pseudo-psycho-literary-babble…

 

If you were to take away

the prurient essence of

my underlying corporeity,

I’d be nothing but a stray thought—

alea jacta est…

 

I suppose it’s really rather like

what Descartes was always saying:

“I don’t know anything about anything…

but I know this—

ready or not, here I come!

 

 

 

The Ass Poem  (a sonnet)

 

Needs must I assay, with utmost assertion,

Her assets, all, were of the finest display—

Yet must I assert, her fairest ascription

Follows her about in the most pleasing way.

To assess from behind—the soul doth ascend!

Demands an assiduous aspiration;

An assurgent assurance that, in the end,

Assents to an assize of asseveration!

To assort such an aspect, yet not offend—

For easily may your assigns go astray—

Let not your emotions be astir, my friend,

And, with a subtle assuagement, survey;

So ascetic I must be—or it’s harassment, you see…

Ah, if only she could know how much her ass meant to me!

 

 

 

CANTO I:  Bohemian Rhapsody

 

They don’t care…

most of them don’t even know—

how could they?…

Why should they?…

But if they did,

they still wouldn’t—

the bastards!—

and that’s the whole point,

then, isn’t it!…

 

Drifting through a silent fog

of solitary existence…

floating atop the fetid quagmire

of a reality that goes nowhere…

stagnating in the mucky-muck-muck

of the fucky-fuck-fucked-up

society of barbarous being…

ever dragging me down

to unacceptable and exciting

new depths of degradation….

 

I writhe…

I wallow…

I slither all about

as if yet shedding my scales

for flesh and hair and nails,

dragging myself along the shore

to the subterfuge of evolution

in the tree-tops…

day chases night

into summer chasing winter—

but a flash of light,

a shroud of darkness,

a flush of warmth,

a shriek of cold…

the centuries fade away

into ages and eons,

and all that never changes

is the delusion

we have progressed—

that we have become more

than the animals we once were…

 

—we are yet,

and shall always be,

the primitives we started off as…

it is only the act

of pretending to be appalled

by our savage natures

that has become more elaborate….

We are but actors,

feigning sainthood

as we revel in sin…

enslaved to the burdens

of corporeity….

 

 

 

Musings – #51

 

Oh—the incessancy of it all!…

Bother, anyway…

I know not what…

(and why would I want to…)

 

This is like that one time—

you know?…

do you remember?—

that time when?…

 

No, no—

nevermind…

that never happened….

  

 

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Links to other websites:

Authors:

Schick Happens – The Genealogy of Michael E. Schick

FNCNE Foundry Networks Certified Network Engineer   – Jon Fullmer

Blindogg Books – The Work of Author Tim Baker

James Goi, Jr. – Author, Speaker, Mind Power Coach

Kinematics of Inertial Navigation Systems – Mikhail Ivanovich Zakharin  (no relation…)

 

Other:

www.sevencupsdenver.com   - Seven Cups Chinese Teahouse, Denver, CO

www.larrydahlke.com  - Actor, musician Larry Dahlke

http://www.jamesfullmer.com/    - The Art of James H. Fullmer

http://www.onebrickmusic.com/   - One Brick Music

 

http://www.linkoncenter.com/   web-search site

http://www.zepti.com/  web-search site

http://www.societydirectory.org/  web-search site

http://www.oy-map.net/  web-search site

 

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To Contact Mishka:  mishkazakharin@yahoo.com or mishka@zmishka.com

 

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