It wouldn't be the first time the endlessly subtle australians outstripped the rest of us . damn. If your humor is that impossible to translate, I can...
theres got to be a more robust tradition of poop jokes that the indigenous and colonizers alike can draw from? A humor bread line? Like, I get it that...
News of some thing we know and care little of, As the distant castle rejoices to the joyous Sound of hooves, releasing rooks straight up into the faul...
But living with it deep in the midst of things. It it is civilization that counts, after all, they seem To be saying, and we are as much a part of it ...
My job wasn't work-from-home, but has become so. I'm new to the company (started in January) but I'm just doing customer service. We manage fuel cards...
Never responded to this thread, but I'd like to now. I like the three categories and have found them useful recently. This will be scattered, because ...
Perhaps all that is wanted is time. People cover us, they are older And have lived before. They want no part of us, Only to be dying, and over with it...
Before and now seems infinite though encircled by gradual doubts Of whatever came over us. Perhaps the old chic was less barren, More something be loo...
We have them all, those people, and now they have us. Their decision was limited, waiting for us to make the first move. But now that we have done so ...
You and I and the dog Are here, this is what matters for now. In other times things will happen that cannot possibly involve us now. And this is good,...
And ideally the chime of this Will come to have the fascination of a remembered thing Without avatars, or so remote, like a catastrophe In some unhear...
Perhaps, sinking into the pearl stain of that passionate eye The minutes came to seem the excrement of all they were passing through, A time when colo...
The way the date came in Made no sense, it never had any. It should have been a caution to you To listen more carefully to the words Under the wind as...
Distant corner is rounded, everything Is not to be made new again. We shall be inhabited In the old way, as ideal things came to us, Yet in the having...
The pageant, growing ever more curious, reaches An ultimate turning point. Now everything is going to be Not dark, but on the contrary, charged with s...
And so, into our darkness life seeps, Keeping its part of the bargain. But what of Houses, standing ruined, desolate just now: Is this not also beauti...
As on a festal day in early spring The tidelands maneuver and the air is quick with intimations: Ships, hats appear. And those, The mind-readers, who ...
Could be. But I sincerely think my YA example encompasses everything you were talking about in the quote I responded to. I think it was a legitimate r...
To continue the conceit: What does this say beyond the idea that when most people feel an affect intensely, they express it in a way that fits the sit...
I hadn't realized this when I first posted on this thread, but I do know Feldman, sort of. I listened to her interview with Ezra Klein on the Ezra Kle...
yeah, that's right about misprision. I don't know him as well as I feign. What I understand him to mean is that every mature poet offers a Big Poem (o...
Echoing others, but Sartre's still a cultural signifier of sorts. You'll find references to 'hell is other people' etc in 'smart' cartoons or podcasts...
This is my suspicion. I think Bloom's misprision is a good guiding light. I think we forget what others knew, which you can get a dim sense of by look...
A one-easy-trick-emotional-theorists-hate-him perspective, not to negate what you're saying, but to try to better draw out what you take the significa...
Ivy is blanketing one whole wall. The time is darker For fast reasons into everything, about what concerns it now. We could sleep together again but t...
3. I Love the Sea There is no promise but lots Of intimacy the way yellowed land narrows together. This part isn't very popular For some reason: the h...
2. Courage In a diamond-paned checked shirt To be setting out this way: A blah morning Not too far from home (home Is a modest one-bedroom apartment, ...
That's gorgeous! What country/region are you in? To assuage any fears about my well-being, I do get out most days. Lucky enough to live near a tranqui...
My company just laid off a bunch of people. Luckily, I still have my job. The CEO took a 20% paycut. However, after reading a few articles, found this...
Nameless shrubs running across a field That didn't drain last year and Isn't draining this year to fall short Like waves at the end of a lake, Each wi...
'Evil' is too absolute a term, but 'sin' can be re-immanentized, if you like. Call it a bone in the throat of flourishing. If I self-phenomenologize, ...
got my stimulus check & bought a cot. Now I'm primarily living in the walk-in closet off my main bedroom (does have a window, at least, I'm not crazy ...
1. Love "Once I let a guy blow me. I kind of backed away from the experience. Now years later, I think of it Without emotion. There has been no desire...
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