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"Then this scene came up where the two of them are watching the news. It was about the war in Bosnia. The joke was that Alicia Silverstone’s character didn’t know where Bosnia was. I could feel something inside me clench into a fist. We were the punchline."

"We are so small between the stars,/ So large against the sky" --Leonard Cohen

A memory of Hampton Court Palace.

"Brasilia

Will they occur,
These people with torso of steel
Winged elbows and eyeholes

Awaiting masses
Of cloud to give them expression,
These super-people! -
And my baby a nail
Driven, driven in.
He shrieks in his grease

Bones nosing for distance.
And I, nearly extinct,
His three teeth cutting

Themselves on my thumb -
And the star,
The old story.

In the lane I meet sheep and wagons,
Red earth, motherly blood.
O You who eat

People like light rays, leave
This one
Mirror safe, unredeemed

By the dove’s annihilation,
The glory
The power, the glory."

–Sylvia Plath

Full Moon.