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"It is a feeling of failure, loss and despair which, when pursued to its nadir, can yield new insight, and possible new avenues of exploration or modes of expression."

we have achieved liftoff
in the starry veldt
a box for manticore phlegm
damp cuff
rusted cufflinks
you have to move
the tree

these idiot games
with desp'rate outcomes

"I think of Whitman every day."

"The glittering promises of individual wealth and technologically mediated comfort and pleasure have proved almost irresistible to many human communities, and when they haven’t industrial modernity has very often been forced on recalcitrant communities by violence." —Ian Marcus Corbin via

Hegelian pun in German advert.