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A classical Latin codex curated for poets, writers, scholars & language lovers.

"Because none of our current ruling class have ever read a book, none of them know what happens to them when a critical mass of the population cannot afford food."
—@dlbowman.bsky.social

McLuhan replied.

"the great offloading"

1.
shellhorse harg
short telegraph
pallid bice
food for agents

2.
koolaid drinkers' dwale
conducted liquidly
so much unspeakable

slaughter in plain sight

behind blue eyes
blasphemous hardware
as we herd together
in some final tally

wordless

black smoke horizons
how much farther to go
is there a land beyond
where they will say
Big Suicide failed

3.
song of moral injury
there's something stunned inside them
this makes perfect camouflage for

meet the new software
same as the old software
did they also debate

onboarding the Hakenkreuz

4.
cliff face
sheer
polynomial

Sappho in Middle English.