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Sonnet (Voyager 1).

Your Weird Matters.

The Fields of Flanders.

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Our leader has been saved by god, detailed oil painting, hieronymous bosch.

"I'm watching Rings of Power today, & Sauron is doing a really great job persuading the Elves to create the rings & put them on Dwarves & Men to act as manipulation device / magnifying glass to help him rule all of Middle Earth. Oh WHOOPS, I mean I'm watching the inauguration. It's the inauguration." --@tracepeterson.bsky.social

Zeuhl music.

coruscating dark is home
to goblin fears & bars of chrome
as fathoms furl
i find no pearl
in screen or jowl-by-jowl-crammed tome

passport allows the mind to roam
while off the nearer doors carom
no wisp succeeds its thirl
coruscating dark

& we remain in calcite dome
croaking like a wintry merle
the burning whirl
a metronome

coruscating dark

"In 2008, Le Guin was asked what gave her hope for the future. She answered, 'The age, and the vastness, and the vast complexity of the earth and all its creatures. No matter how we try to cut it down to our size, we’ll fail; and in our failure lies our hope'."

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National Anthem Minor Key. (via Mefi)

"After the Dissolution

When we tell of this, the we that remains
five hundred years from now, our storied glacier

will be so small. Who could imagine this
great being of ice scored with huge crevices?

We’ll say that glaciers were white, because
we won’t imagine that ice becomes blue

as the weight of it presses out centuries
of air. We won’t remember gray moraines

comprised of stones rounded by the rolling
of so much power advancing and retreating.

We won’t tell of rivers a shade of turquoise
that stuns the eyes, carrying glacial flour

and ice’s breath to the sea. And those huge
boulders left in the middle of fields, we’ll

imagine that men put them there for some
reason. We’ll have forgotten how the tongues

of glaciers could rearrange the earth. We’ll
have forgotten how a glacier could tell a story

that reminded us of how small we are,
how brief our lives that misunderstood forever."

--Erin Coughlin Hollowell in Nature of our Times

Peltier freed.

"Lynch dying just before inauguration feels a lot like Bowie dying just before inauguration. The ominous clouds; the passing saints of freaks." --@besecretandexult.bsky.social via @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

"When Democratic policymakers accept Republican policy proposals as though they are good faith assessments of empirical reality, they unwittingly cede the struggle over framing the problems we face to the right. If both Democratic and Republican officials are calling something a 'crisis,' journalists have little choice but to report it as such and voters little reason to think otherwise."

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"That never happened."

Pound had an immense effect on 20c poetry but wrote very few good poems himself ("Mauberley" is the best one). I had a copy of the Cantos for a long time & liked to try to squirrel away good lines whenever i could find them but in truth, this was not a joyful task & eventually i sold the book. I think into the 21c he can still be considered as a key link in the emerging Alliterative Revival, but now that the force of Imagism has been absorbed into mainstream practice, most of his reputation belongs to early 20c literary history. The part that people only want to talk about anymore, his rotten politics (&/or mental illness?)--now that we know so much about the other 20c "greats"--really has to be placed in the context of 20c fascism & not in our present desire to cancel or connect him with current events. I can easily imagine a new canon that bypasses him altogether.

"In 2024, 398 new pieces of anti-trans legislation across 43 states were introduced, and 274 were carried over from 2023. 613 of those bills failed, 50 passed."

If i could sleep, i'd sleep through four foul years,
cicada-like siesta underground.
I'd rest until this rain of maggots clears
   --if i could sleep.

But why stop there, when spared of sight & sound
of Rapist Cheetoh, i could hold my tears
& sloom until no trace remains around...

Here we are still, though: pierced with vicious fears
& barely able to dream we might rebound.
I'd stay awake to spike their cruel careers--
   if i could sleep.

Ain't that a mood.

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The Dancing Pig. (How do i get Bluesky to replace Rapist Cheetoh's face with this in every article?)

"DJ Compassion Fatigue"

call upon all the gods
ghoulish in the mirror
no final fond regards
no hardline miracle

"Wishing you all a day of peace for Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2025."

"So: genial lives oppose villain egos." --@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

It begins.

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"But the rats have been in the walls of the world all along it seems, just waiting for us to go to the bathroom for a quick number two."

"Mit der Dummheit kampfen
Gotter selbst vergebens."

--Schiller, 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑢 𝑣𝑜𝑛 𝑂𝑟𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑠 III vi ('Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.')

Exceptless.

"FAR SIDE OF THE MOON (Homovocalic Lines*)

Far side of the Moon.
A stricken bone blooms
a hidden ode of rock.
Facing the open cosmos,
that silent stone looms —
a view for the long lost.

(*lines use the same vowels, in the same order)"

--@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

Facebook Suicide.

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Angherr Shisspa (Revisited). (via feuilleton)

"winter solstice
tell me where i'm bound, to which
at dusk"

--@poemexe.com

Mars. (via Mefi)

"One of his clowns who’d been a doctor once had attended her. She’d died. The clown-doctor had declared her conclusively dead. Oh yes, this clown-doctor was himself dead." --@harryskeeler.bsky.social

"You great poets should show it as it is--ugly and horrible, not beautiful and serene."