Saturday, July 21, 2018

Some few will



  • “No one ever got lynched and thought, Well, at least this will lead inexorably to the civil-rights movement.” New short fiction by Zadie Smith. | The New Yorker

Origin Story




Did the stability of stone buildings:
The smoothness of the stones,
The enduring aspect of stone
The eruptions from below of stone

Against the repetitive grasses built on immeasurable crumbs of black, all different, all the same,

And all within cornerless globes --

Did these comprehensions give men the idea for ideas, the word for words?

If so it certainly has been a persistent mistake.

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Put Down the Gun


Put Down the Gun.

Those weeds were already withering

and

Your blindfold is slipping.