a plethora of base magics

I was the shadow of the waxworm slain...

"Men deride omens, though often they are but the mind's logic waging a war upon our optimism." --Chesterton

Like this.

18.

when large things collide
all you can do is watch
pop-up blocker doesn't cut it
this is gronderous

meanwhorl
where we stand
is not an ice floe shattered
so much as the sound
of its shattering

rigors & veils divide us
blue skies like wounds still tender
vanishing pilgrim
not to the light

here in the thick of traffic
hearing the mischief rattle
signs fail to guide us
teachers have passed

colors of darkness parsing
codex with too much missing
blue skies still tender
turn if you can

"Since 1950, the proportion of the world’s citizens living in extreme poverty has declined from 72 percent to under 10 percent, while world life expectancy has increased from 48 years to 71."

"Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from scammery." --tclark on Metafilter

Secret Nazi propaganda at National Geographic.

(via nasa)