'Since that time I have seen several generations
of humans in the morning raise their wings and eyes
toward space with the inexperienced joy of the
chrysalis hailing its last metamorphosis, and in the
evening, before sunset, die, heads drooping like
wilted flowers which the wind's plaintive whistling
sways.' --Maldoror (tr Lykiard, 1970)

My wife put Linda Ronstadt's "Heat Wave" on the answering
machine. It's pollution level "purple"* for the second day
--which is worse than red i guess--on the radio they say:
"Don't go out unless you have to." Now that's something
worth killing & dying for!!

I like horseshoe crabs. Five hundred million years unchanged--
they must be doing something right.

'...something like the weeping of children/
Is in your poems...' --There's a street named after her in Berlin now.

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*"In August 2002, the North Texas region suffered its
first-ever "level purple" air quality alert, where
the air was so bad that everyone was cautioned to stay
inside. After smog build-ups violated EPA ozone standards
22 times that summer, federal authorities warned that
highway funds could be withheld unless improvements are made."