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"I am forced to see how my identity bars me from the Western-mediated colloquy that is contemporary writing in the world at large, which I’ve aspired to joining. It was decided long before I was born."

"To be FORFOUGHTEN is to be worn down by fatigue or constant struggle." --@HaggardHawks

"He had seen the movie once before, a long time ago; I had not, but I knew I would have to eventually, because it’s one of those movies you have to see."

"For My Daughter

Looking into my daughter’s eyes I read
Beneath the innocence of morning flesh
Concealed, hintings of death she does not heed.
Coldest of winds have blown this hair, and mesh
Of seaweed snarled these miniatures of hands;
The night’s slow poison, tolerant and bland,
Has moved her blood. Parched years that I have seen
That may be hers appear: foul, lingering
Death in certain war, the slim legs green.
Or, fed on hate, she relishes the sting
Of others’ agony; perhaps the cruel
Bride of a syphilitic or a fool.
These speculations sour in the sun.
I have no daughter. I desire none."

--Weldon Kees

From the Jack Johnson Sessions. (via Mefi)