from the letters of Sidonius Apollinaris (Loeb translation--W B Anderson):
"Consider too that the mob of the sluggards has so grown in numbers that unless there are at least a modest few like yourself to defend the exact use of the Language of Latium from the rust of vulgar barbarisms, we shall in a short time be lamenting its extinction and annihilation, so sadly will all the bright ornaments of noble expressions be dulled by the slovenliness of the mob." (II.x, to Hesperius)
"starships"
decrepit wizard in the whirlpool
wielding phantom galleons
clownbane closing in
claw listicles yet
more gilt on the borrowed walls
galloping word salad
& this is what power parlays
out of pure hierarchy
red-assed baboon Brutalism
handedness equivocal
in the dark velvet kitchen
A Thousand Times Before November.
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