zany actual meal (day 86)

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"And all dead years draw thither,
And all disastrous things"

--Swinburne, "The Garden of Proserpine"

"One very droll piece has the poet giving Eugenio Montale a raft of misinformation about America."

standing on a gray tank in GDANSK
not today i would DELETE

glamours of the ever-unattainable
vie with lost ALLURE

Wittenberg
sacked in each broken NEURON

ywldwzquixotl gleams like distant
mention of a STROKE

my sense of no future a banderilla
but KEENER

"Ligotti’s own persona is one of being a depressive, anhedonic recluse, managing a bipolar disorder by silence, cunning and exile (and prescribed pharmaceuticals) amidst the wreckage of the American industrial empire, out there in the apocalyptic ruins of Detroit."

"It is not enough to cure the plague: we must learn to weep for it. " --Unamuno

"Though Detroit is never explicitly mentioned as the setting for pieces like 'My Work is Not Yet Done,”'it’s hard to mistake the setting for anyplace other than Detroit."

(@archillect)