74. transient anus

Pursued by dead closures, the shadow of an impossible perfection. This is not the way to end desire.

"After a Senate staffer read for three hours, they brought in five computers to read the bill simultaneously at a speed far faster than humans can understand."

dislustered halogen bulb
dimness that pursues
& folly as before
on the brown & gray carpet

dislustered ptarmigan
car the only car on the road
to be old
& afraid

cartouche

"Starting from Lau’s thesis that the Daodejing (DDJ) is an anthology of writings of diverse origin, together with the common hypothesis that the DDJ consists of a relatively more mystical layer and a relatively more political layer, in this article I divide DDJ into two parts, roughly equal in length, which I call the Daojing 道 經 (the mystical and metaphysical part) and the Shengjing 聖 經 (the part speaking of strategy and state service)."

(via gordon hilgers on fb)