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Deep end

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The Last of Us Part II 44/??

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To rid the world of mosquitoes.

"CELEBRATION OF FAILURE

Through pain the land of pain, Through tender exiguity, Through cruel self-suspicion: Thus came I to this inch of wholeness. It was a promise. After pain, I said, An inch will be what never a boasted mile. And haughty judgement, That frowned upon a faultless plan, Now smiles upon this crippled execution, And my dashed beauty praises me."

--Laura (Riding) Jackson

I get as bored with whining as I do with hype.

"Wonder erases order: Non-red roses are red now." --@Anthony_Etherin

Back to posting at this blog, if i can't get the interface fixed.

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Just Kidding.

"...I founder in desire for things unfound. I stay amid the things that will not stay."

--Geoffrey Hill, "Pavana Dolorosa"

Waves of Feedback #47.

the safeword unpronounceable fathoms whirr like they knew the word chose to withhold it

Mickey Mouse as Saturn.

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Gold.

I had decided to reread Thomas Ligotti's 2009 My Work is Not Yet Done before selling it; i remembered it as distinctly weaker than his books of the 90s, but now i think it is its own thing & if possible, more finely attuned to the current debacle. The mouldering city of Detroit where TL was living, is here more creepily evoked, and in making his setting a Kafkaesque corporate office, reveals i suppose what his own work life was like--as much as he's ever going to tell us. The themes of malevolent "restructuring" & pointlessly sadistic precarity (which i had thought were rather half-baked attempts to create a horror atmosphere in an uncongenial setting) now have been reproduced in my own work experience: the bookstore (founded on decidedly flower-power lines) & the junior college (reliably liberal, at about the same time, early 70s) both went on to reduce benefits, hours, & security, amid fulsome & irresponsible "adjustments"--all for no good business reason--& accompanied by language farther & farther removed from either sincerity or communication. Altogether, what i have named "pogibation" (from the Russian verb for 'perish', Погибать) or the felt consequences of the transfer of so much wealth from the middle classes to the upper 1 or 1/10th of 1 percent, became not just an occasional occurrence but the new normal, during the last decade or so leading up to the Pandemic. So i may decide to keep this one, if nothing else because i don't see any awareness of this in contemporary writing. (The Great American Adjunct Novel remains to be written.) From my point of view, stories about people with regular 9-to-5s & healthcare benefits, living the way they did in America from the 60s through the 90s, are now just science fiction. Kind of like the way masks have disappeared from every movie & TV show. Sidonius, i think, knew all about pretending that Rome was still a thing.

It was truly the last goodbye.

"...and ghosts for love void a few tears of wax upon forlorn altars"

--Geoffrey Hill

Purple diner.

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Don't let the number of steps stop you.

"Cloud-shadows of seasons revisit the earth, odourless myrrh borne by the wandering kings."

--Geoffrey Hill

What's Up.

i live in the present like a dog as the ripe smells present i live in the present & my labors repesent a hole i just have to dig i live in the present like a dog

Denniz Gonzalez Legacy Band finale.

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Dave's phases.

I die of thirst beside the fountain. None of us has tried the fountain.

At night the fountain glows within; dark bits of flotsam ride the fountain.

The desert-builders hedge their words but drink, however wide the fountain.

The grotto seemed today run dry. Just to be sure, we pried the fountain.

Let Graywyvern whisper deep and you yourself provide the fountain.

Ziggy Stardust.

"death as the patience of time (Levinas)" --@dreamsofbeing_

OSF128.

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"There are no angels unless they are Angels of Death..." --Thomas Ligotti

g̷̡̱̦̥̱̙̪̩̩͖̐͐̀͘m̵̨̨̛̹͓͊̂ 👁️.

"in my deserted home village the faraway jingle never clearer"

-- (at) poem_exe 10-29-15

House of wires.

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Son of a Preacher Man.

"Address to My Soul

My soul, be not disturbed By planetary war; Remain securely orbed In this contracted star.

Fear not, pathetic flame; Your sustenance is doubt: Glassed in translucent dream They cannot stuff you out.

Wear water, or a mask Of unapparent cloud; Be brave and never ask A more defunctive shroud.

The universal points Are shrunk into a flower; Between its delicate joints Chaos keeps no power.

The pure integral form, Austere and silver-dark, Is balanced on the storm In its predestined arc.

Small as a sphere of rain It slides along the groove Whose path is furrowed plain Among the suns that move.

The shapes of April buds Outlive the phantom year: Upon the void at odds The dewdrop falls severe.

Five-petalled flame, be cold: Be firm, dissolving star: Accept the stricter mould That makes you singular."

--Elinor Wylie

Sunset village.

"The full moon, now, rears with unhastening speed, sketches the black ridge-end, slides thin lustre downward aslant its gouged and watered scree."

--Geoffrey Hill, "The Orchards of Syon", XIV.

🔥BOOM🔥.

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_GNARLY_FADES_.

"Acres, parched, sodden or blanched by sleet" --Geoffrey Hill, "Funeral Music," 21.

Flax Blooms and a Cossack Goes to a Girl.

"For what Ausonius and Claudian, amid many futilities and falsities, did manage at their best to make an expressive instrument becomes in the hands of Sidonius a hopelessly clumsy and dull mechanism. Yet he clearly has an almost frantic enthusiasm for the worn devices of rhetoric, and the stereotypical literary activity in which he and his friends delighted was felt by them as a noble expression of the tradition in all its fullness." --Song of a Falling World

Pyongyang Awakens.

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Leaves & a board.

   journeyman mortal purpose    or instinct

feast by amber    walg under

"She points to something she calls 'manufactured insecurity' — which, she said, is used to exploit people — and drives much of our politics and economy."

"...Endure/ vigil's identity with entrapment." --Geoffrey Hill

Frenzzz 🎈.

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A Horse with No Name.

I would have thought eponymous the crowning crown of trademark.

Seeker.

"The End

Not every man knows what he shall sing at the end, Watching the pier as the ship sails away, or what it will seem like When he’s held by the sea’s roar, motionless, there at the end, Or what he shall hope for once it is clear that he’ll never go back.

When the time has passed to prune the rose or caress the cat, When the sunset torching the lawn and the full moon icing it down No longer appear, not every man knows what he’ll discover instead. When the weight of the past leans against nothing, and the sky

Is no more than remembered light, and the stories of cirrus And cumulus come to a close, and all the birds are suspended in flight, Not every man knows what is waiting for him, or what he shall sing When the ship he is on slips into darkness, there at the end."

--Mark Strand

"In 1968 the ghazal, as an idea if not a poetic form, entered American poetry."

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"Not only was Joan Micklin Silver trying to secure funds in an industry dominated by men–much more so then than now–her vision for the film bucked just about every convention in place at the time."

"I would take a joyless coronation over countless mass shootings." --@JessicaLWalsh1

Junkyard.

I am totally uninterested in arguing or listening to arguments. I only want insights.

Internal Chaos.

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( noealzii on tumblr / via via @mrvalenberg )

حادث امس الليل.. هل يتحمل الكرايزلر الخطأ؟.

"PANGRAM-HAIKU

My pangram-haiku: Letters squeezed inside a box. A refractive jewel."

--@Anthony_Etherin

Forgot to take a book to the beach, but did bring vintage filters.

"Most precious to me was a series of photos I took of a place where there stood a crooked street-sign but no longer any street deserving of the name--just some rubble along a path and a few relics of unidentifiable structures on either side of the path." --My Work Is Not Yet Done

Kitty Training.

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( via / "Fake Language Machine" by De Villo Sloan. Royal Selector electric typewriter, via Fb )

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"It isn't so bad to be one or the other, but to be both dead and broke at the same time is an ignominy almost past enduring." --RA Lafferty

"The internet in general is getting less reliable overall, in part due to misinformation, disinformation, and the waves of garbage and glurge barfed forth by various bots and algorithms." (via)

"turmeric days"

an hour comes round again & all the things i know to do are burdensome of remedy beside the effervescence gone

a little more strong coffee guides my hand along the wonted groove whether or not an ardent grave is offered with the household gods

i feel there ought to be some word awaiting me as light grows back & matter in its staid alembic reaches what we call the world

⇩ .gm.1of1.50ꜩ. ⇩.

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"The construction of situations begins on the ruins of the modern spectacle."

"Our Faith forbids us to evoke spirits. But where does it forbid us to evoke geographies?" --RA Lafferty

FOHAT The infinite creative and destructive power.

"Global pandemic, a Russian Revolution, and Titanic deaths? The 1910s are BACK." --@RohitaKadambi (via @JordanDavisPoet)

Wheel.