11-05-2010, 06:59 AM
But who can carry the incineration of a universe? - Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid
The disordered mind, writhing
like a violated girl
in her heady mix of hate and shame,
makes a "To Do" list:
1. Buy some pencils.
2. Borrow books.
3. Purchase a hot meal from the local diner.
4. Think It Over. An
itinerary forms now that money
is received.
If I lived in America
I'd thank Uncle Sam,
but what such figure
of patriotic pride do we have on our shores?
Churchill? Kitchener? John Lennon?
I'm too ignorant to know.
I'm too ignorant to know.
When I asked what "the cuts" were about,
why the kid with the megaphone
on the third college square
kept cursing a man called Osbourne,
they treated me like the man who arrived
at the banquet of his king wearing rags.
The disordered mind, writhing
like a violated girl
in her heady mix of hate and shame,
makes a "To Do" list:
1. Buy some pencils.
2. Borrow books.
3. Purchase a hot meal from the local diner.
4. Think It Over. An
itinerary forms now that money
is received.
If I lived in America
I'd thank Uncle Sam,
but what such figure
of patriotic pride do we have on our shores?
Churchill? Kitchener? John Lennon?
I'm too ignorant to know.
I'm too ignorant to know.
When I asked what "the cuts" were about,
why the kid with the megaphone
on the third college square
kept cursing a man called Osbourne,
they treated me like the man who arrived
at the banquet of his king wearing rags.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe