February 2012
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from Silly Rhymes for the Aging Prime Ministers: Harper’s Bizarre
There once was a plenipotentiary
who soon would approach his centenary, airy.
So, as light as could be,
With bones proving dusty
He floated away lacking authority.
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After Lyonel Feininger’s “The Spell”
as with city
a dull madness downward points to this hidden fulcrum of grey that building’s black square is you you’ve turned the light off to see how blunted the artist’s eyes elide an alarm to look upwards and ignore your window ignore heaven’s motive for motif away from tipping buildings only a tear in the canvas that’s not you at all is it? that’s...
“As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in...”
– Václav Havel, Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. Former President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic, (1936-2011), Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala (English translation by Paul Wilson), 1990, Ch. 1 : Growing Up...