( florine stettheimer / me )

"This industry will die and our souls with it if all you do is endlessly devalue the next generation of artists and their fans.."

I have books on high shelves, i have books on low shelves. I even have a few big, heavy books that take both hands to lift. And i have books in boxes i have to uncover from a stack of other book boxes. I get plenty of exercise with my books. (That’s not even counting the miles i have browsed in used bookstores.)

No, it's because their cell phones kept getting smaller & smaller.

"Rust

Riding in the backs of cars
At night wrapped up in the illusion
Of getting out as light pollution
Drowsily gives way to stars

How often have I put my trust
In one-time strangers at the wheel
And prayed that I could make the toll
With coins like hubcaps dark from rust?

Time, perhaps, to turn my attention
Away from the buckshot-riddled sky
And study with somnambulant eyes
The unknown figure riding shotgun"

—@huckastley

Call Me When You Win the War.