( via / fritz eichenberg via feuilleton )

The Dark Night of the Soul.

" 'Because we have broken all the major compulsions,' the man said, worrying his words a little bit, 'so we must be chained to the minor compulsions. We cannot be free completely, or we would violate the freedom-slavery dialectic; and we can progress only by dialectics. We have freed ourselves from the slavery of fact, so now we must bind ourselves to the slavery of fetish. There's no other way.' " --Aurelia

Affordable Sunday Surgery [II].

transfixed feeding the cheap SLOTS
i lived for more than LUCRE

in earshot of the OCEAN
plastic stack of half-dried TRAYS

a connoisseur of nonSENSE
scorns to field this ALIBI

barrenness more than LUNAR
in the slow guitar INTRO

tapestry for a BARON
depicts without IRONY

The Absolute Elsewhere.