Friday, 23 January 2026

In Memoriam

Ishmael Smith, 1950 to 23rd January 2020

Writer, Satirist and Blogger





i.m.stanislav, the young polish plumber
by editor mr verge


Flush Test
 
You want proof? You want proof?
Give a man a mask, he’ll tell the truth.
 
Mike Skinner // The Streets
 
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 A radical egalitarian in all things,
he held anointed betters
to the highest standards of contempt,
as scathing in his skewering of Ian Paisley
as the other lot.
[A Martian posts a kill-list home.]

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Our samizdat Tass ~ Dyno-Rod Reuters :
that vent stack let us laugh like unblocked drains.
 
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The contrarian genius of stanislav,
forever young, forever mad as holy hell,
and funnier than snotbuns at a White House piss-up,
will sustain us through the never-never national debt,
the hollow bellend on the throne,
& Downing Street’s feculent louse.
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xxiii.i
 
Gustave Doré,
Edvard Munch
Salvador Dalí
ishmael smith
Shaanxi Earthquake, 1556
 
 
 


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