"I am frail, lazy and unsuited to doing anything except what I am paid to do, which is sit by myself and type with one finger." —Joan Didion in Sharp (Michelle Dean, 2018)
“Four Screens I Don’t Cherish”
Fumigant farce · fester stone
in the changed light · we look for continuance
songs of before · ferocious fuse
nil proceed · nothing prove
the bard bickers · with his bad self
afraid like a fraud · frazzled to hold
to the one stance · stereotype
of one who waits · for a wrenched whisper
beauty of innuendo · ornate chasm
to get lost in · as the lessons burn
& this road rankles · even the rulers
of a small coign · or smothered calm
we know nothing · we need so much
more than these mists · of a chill morning
have never faced · the bold fascist
have never flown · flaunting the sun
only this dim · delegation
of golden glimmers · & gladsome oblivion
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