"Power Holiday"

colorcarolcorolla
foreign blood
for crystal scattering lantern fray
for bloody accord
for crude follicle flowering bloodwork bark

of gore crystalline letters
fishhook iguana
antique Iblis bloodstone wonderment
go adorn
of gore crystalline scurry frozen dynasts


"In the years following the Revolution, a unique and short-lived fashion for funerary duels between two violinists had grown up in France: the soon to be deceased would leave a fragment of melody with his will, and two Funerary Violinists would improvise in turn upon the theme at the interment, each attempting to conjure more tragedy from it than his opponent--the winner being the artist who drew the most tears from the assembled crowd." --Rohan Kriwaczek, An Incomplete History of the Funerary Violin (2006)


The Art of Richard Powers.


SHTF thread on Metafilter.


From now on, i said, i want to get paid in euros.