"Hooked on a Lanyard"

weary of the new
time turns to plagiarism
time tries on plagiarism
knowing only what it knew
falling in the chasm
diving in the splendid chasm
citadel and ruin too
each return a further schism
angry birth and ruin too
nothing left but further schism

whirlpool and fingerling
the freak microcosm
stuttering on a déjà vu


"The sense that a place is haunted, the evil eye, is older in the human mind than the name of any god." --Mary Lee Settle


Lenin's Private War.


"But what I think has changed is that nation functions rather differently than it used to. It functions now as brand."