"To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for."
--Alexander Smith

   "Latte Infix"

Beggar conjure, reindeer dogtrot door
To radium call
Pummel leave shriek (up) blackened

Day unkind

Easter disperse latte crossfire gray newbie
And rogue bonobo.
Pouncy ceasefire latte bleed practice
For the world of light Pitcairn

Gray Easter

Conjure reindeer Fallujah corpses grope star
Shattered eyes it?; shortened field
Chartreuse sifts down; flying dogtrot beg
Jade bomb hush.
Gray of evil loom

04 11 04

"The novel used to feed our search for meaning... It was the great secular transcendence. The Latin mass of language, character, occasional new truth. But our desperation has led us toward something larger and darker. So we turn to the news, which provides an unremitting mood of catastrophe. This is where we find emotional experience not available elsewhere. We don't need the novel... We don't even need catastrophes, necessarily. We only need the reports and predictions and warnings." --Don DeLillo, Mao II (1991)