Friday, May 22, 2009

the eternal enemy of the absolute

I had unsettling dreams last night.  I got a hole through one of my top front teeth, like a hole straight through it like a bullet hole, but smaller.  And this kid I've known for a long time who has always had a girlfriend was trying to hook up with me and was going to cheat on his girlfriend.



Conversation Galante
 
OBSERVE: “Our sentimental friend the moon!
Or possibly (fantastic, I confess)
It may be Prester John’s balloon
Or an old battered lantern hung aloft
To light poor travellers to their distress.”        5
  She then: “How you digress!”
 
And I then: “Someone frames upon the keys
That exquisite nocturne, with which we explain
The night and moonshine; music which we seize
To body forth our own vacuity.”        10
  She then: “Does this refer to me?”
  “Oh no, it is I who am inane.”
 
“You, madam, are the eternal humorist,
The eternal enemy of the absolute,
Giving our vagrant moods the slightest twist!        15
With your air indifferent and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute—”
  And—“Are we then so serious?"

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