yogurt drying on the spoon
bricks mostly straw

confirmation
number of the beast

misshapen
lifelong ignorance

wellbeing only as deep
as the warmth from this cup

path ending
abruptly in the autumn woods


"But I think that none of the possible identity positions in themselves, whether regional, sexual, racial or class based, no matter how non-normative they could seem in terms of centrist positions and their programmatic exclusion from those centres, is any guarantee of a particular subversion of genre." (via Silliman)


"Of course, the loss of our troops (over 4,200 dead and 30,000 wounded) and treasure (three trillion dollars according to economics Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz), the perversion of our language, the mangling of our laws, the broken bodies and tortured brains of our veterans really bear no comparison with the suffering we have inflicted on the citizens of Iraq."