Homage to Robert E. Howard

It's me to become the sere and yellow leaf*.
What sense does it make to suffer the grief?
What sence you can see in the love and desire.
The show must go on, but the lamps are expired.

One world is enough to go astray.
Hyborian** journey will soon fade away.
A fool who told stories
Full of allegories:
The swords and the wizards, the clash and the clang,
The gun in the glovebox... Watch out! Big bang.



*Several times in 1935–36, whenever Howard's mother's health had declined, he made veiled allusions to his father about planning suicide, which his father did not understand at the time.He had made references when speaking to Novalyne Price(his ex-bride) about being in his "sere and yellow leaf." The words sounded familiar to her, but it was only in early June 1936 that she found the source in Macbeth:

I have liv'd long enough: my way of life
Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf;
And that which should accompany old age,
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have; but, in their stead,
Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath,
Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene III

**  The Hyborian Age is a fictional period of Earth's history within the artificial mythology created by Robert E. Howard, serving as the setting for the sword and sorcery tales of Conan the Barbarian.