( via / me )

" 'American reality stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates,' [Roth] writes, 'and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one’s own meager imagination. The actuality is continually outdoing our talents, and the culture tosses up figures almost daily that are the envy of any novelist'." (via @mckenziewark)

the Devil three times
has to be asked
those are the cursed terms
the devil three times

but now the Fox teams
with ready lies are tasked
the Devil three times
has to be asked

"Rage is a form of prayer too."

"howling like a damp dog in November" --Basil Bunting

Tarantula Nebula.