from the ostrich farm (day 91)

(keddist seliassie via lamont el in moorish orthodox church of america on facebook)

O Memnon meme.

It was only a few years ago (2015) that i got around to reading The Recognitions. (Not with the help of the Gaddis Drinking Club.) And i only later heard about Franzen's attack i suppose. But i'm adding this note now, in order to blog the riposte by Ben Marcus. It makes me want to find my copy of The Age of Wire and String...

The alluvial valley of the lower Mississippi River.

scarecrow PREEN
at the crowd control RETRO

when bullying becomes an ETHOS
Rushmore nogs ERODE

neighbors almost never seen · online NOSEY
cannibal PUTTI

rough beast Bethlehem UNWED
wind spinners on the perfect lawn TWIRL

reports from the battlefront twitterly TERSE
thumb IDLED

barcode by night switches what it MEANT
computer back: just "ERROR"

tear gas AROMA
from the days when i thought myself a NOMAD

mask-mask TRADE
but it's our life that is CHEAP

cactus that's HARDY
rose that has died · ev'ryone shot in ERROR

& not in error · kappas ADORE
these moth PYRES

Poems from the edge of extinction.

"now we are leaving
sweet clover
leading to nowhere"

--@poem_exe

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