August 2011
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Kinetics Researcher from Vienna, 1930
Nakedness ought to be undatable, Proof that the latest phenotype is made On the same plan as his original Who sauntered through the Garden, unafraid. Even without the cotton pouch he wears As a concession to the prudery Of viewers not evolved enough to share His unembarrassed objectivity, The willed detachment on his face would show, Better than any clothes, the difference Between the antique...
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“The English landscape at its finest - such as I saw this morning - possesses a...”
– Kazuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day
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From behind, standing, from a distance
From behind, standing, from a distance, in passing, the taxi meter running, I’d watch her, I’d watch her hair, and what would I see? My stubborn theatre, curtain won’t fall, my always-open theatre … Best to leave as soon as the show begins.
Patrizia Cavalli
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“I can’t even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself -...”
– Kazuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day
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Disregard
Overhead, the match burns out, but the chunk of ice in the back seat keeps melting from imagined heat, while the old Hudson tiptoes up the slope. My voile blouse, so wet it is transparent, like one frightened hand, clutches my chest. The bag of rock salt sprawled beside me wakes, thirsty and stretches a shaky tongue toward the ice. I press the gas pedal hard. I’ll get back to the house, the...
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“What is the point in worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not...”
– Kazuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day
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One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII
I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz, or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as one loves certain obscure things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself, and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose from the earth lives dimly in my body. I...
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“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the...”
– Petrarch
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To David, About His Education
The world is full of mostly invisible things, And there is no way but putting the mind’s eye, Or its nose, in a book, to find them out, Things like the square root of Everest Or how many times Byron goes into Texas, Or whether the law of the excluded middle Applies west of the Rockies. For these And the like reasons, you have to go to school And study books and listen to what you are told, And...
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“Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.”
– Alexander the Great
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December 26
A BB gun. A model plane. A basketball. A ’lectric train. A bicycle. A cowboy hat. A comic book. A baseball bat. A deck of cards. A science kit. A racing car. A catcher’s mitt. So that’s my list of everything that Santa Claus forgot to bring.
Kenn Nesbitt
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