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Estrella.

"Genius is all haunt’d eyes and bad haircuts: see Wittgenstein, see Beckett, see Marguerite Young. You don’t think the dapperly-coiff’d Thomas Wolfe’s a genius, do ya stupor man? John Ashbery (whose haircuts’ve gone slightly better of late) wrote, back in the god-awful hair days: 'We have seen the city; it is the gibbous / Mirrored eye of an insect.' " --John Latta, Hotel Point 4/27/03

Damage I've Done.

speckfester spooked · sparse pinprick
with echoes · ailing-byblow upset
weirded out as well · by the waft of a cough
mostly unmoved · from the cosplay jostlecoup
radar's riddles wrench me · weekly
in the soft season · safety questioned
shall we gather glumly · in windowless waiting
our attention turned · to tiny screens
a dark red blotch · blandly encroaching
lines of the lucky · & the loss-insured

"If they had shared in the gains instead of being left to starve, if they had been given agency over their technological destinies, they would not have taken up their hammers."