( via / me )

"Since the election, how many of us have felt ourselves to be suffering a similar punishment perpetrated by our own nation’s eagle, albeit a little less dramatically than the fate suffered by Prometheus?"

sharp leafshadow dorp
our share of pox tocsin
recrudescent frass
Rorschach made of horse shit

the leafshadow load
my long fasting masters
is only air pinwheeled
by oil guzzling buzzards

"Which of the values that formerly served a society well can continue to be maintained under new changed circumstances?"

"At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished."

—Ivy Compton-Burnett via @dunn4authors.bsky.social via @icomptonburnett.bsky.social

"It’s scary to admit that what we have been doing is not working, and that we may not know what to do next."