a rainy day out of the rainy season

" 'There's one thing about freedom' (a word upon which Rome [a character] had of late been speculating): each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history, and ends by being sure the generation younger than themselves have too much of it. It can't really always have been increasing at the rate people suppose, or there would be more of it by now.' " --Told by an Idiot

Each_wordsquare. His other bots.

this mask
at the end of all my faces
inchmeal replaces;
stone,
the last of living tissue

no Byzantium will clasp
these final, inexplicable things
auroras in the rafters
patrimony of rat & moth

this landfill Earth's become
no longer
will lack explanation
the howling

will at last subside

"I’m fortunate to have a first edition of “Finnegans Wake,” bound in red cloth and signed by Joyce in green ink. I bought it from a London bookseller with money I earned lecturing. It’s wrapped in a very old piece of heavy red silk; I plan to unwrap it and read it. Well, at least look at it, the whole of it, in slow motion, every single page."