09-09-2012, 06:03 AM
this is the best one i read of yours. i was searching for the meaning of what i read about you liking your poetry bloody, when everything was so well done: and that's a genuine compliment. i was an aesthete myself, until everyone thought i was queer. then i became a feminist, because i reckoned the world couldn't go on with nothing but men. but none of that comes through any more for me. And Oscar Wilde said that thing about genius and nature, and I suppose if there is a genius in this world, it's an alien thing that can do without nature. Nature is the cruellest thing in the world, and spirit, poetry, and beauty give us hope, inspiration and comfort. Comfort, because it gives even pain and loss a chance to heal. Plus it all gives us something to do. But I'm never comfortable, so I have nothing to lose by being like those curtains or wallpaper or whatever it was he didn't like, but I like the suits he wore.