st patrick & snakes

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"Hyperacuory, n. a place for more than normal sharpness" --@fantasticvocab

Cheating death.

this flensing knife is like a morning star
school's out
completely

subfusc errandry · too many
cars · you should be at home · listening
we interrupt this program

rust-frosted leaves on the lane-lining both sides hedges
veer
the day that knows not you

no paucity of humans
in this stalker's world
saving my assassin

sesqixa jitou
face BARER

floating my nostrils barely ABOVE
tor Arepo Tenet Opera ROTAS

ev'ry day zombies, EVADE
it's a long way to RESET

waiting for the avalanche to STALL
blow flute-TIBIA

looking for a shortcut that no dread ABETS
serpent LITHE

concentration like a broke LASER
nor are we SAFER

& who will be left ALIVE
to tell the tale of these intentional FIRES

next EVENT
whenever the Devil RESTS

not this space CADET
crazy sea level rising ABOVE

bark DOGES
hole in the black of no horizon EVENT

prisoners TESTY

movies that came & went
embalmed in the previews
left behind by the swerve
as the jabs continue

this flensing knife is like a morning star
school's out
completely

Corona's jaws.

I see that Penderecki has died. His work has always been an inspiration to me. I think he reaches emotions never even attempted by most of the post-Schoenberg composers.

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"...are they Monker and Nakir, come to throw us into them [the hot coals]? does the fatal bridge cross this lake, whose solemn stillness perhaps conceals from us an abyss...?" --Vathek; Beckford's notes to the same give: "Monker and Nakir. These are two black angels of a tremendous appearance, who examine the departed on the subject of his faith; by whom if he give not a satisfactory account, he is sure to be cudgelled with maces of red-hot iron, and tormented more variously than words can describe.... The fatal bridge. This bridge, called in Arabic al Sirat, and said to extend over the infernal gulf, is represented as narrower than a spider's web, and sharper than the edge of a sword."