“For the entertainment of his guests, Nero would illuminate his whole garden with bodies of live Christians covered in burning oil and strung up on flaming crosses, crucified. At dinner he would have the Christians rubbed by his guards with aromatic herbs and garlic and sewn up into sacks and then they’d throw these sacks to the dogs.”
“That’s terrible.”
“It’s horrible.”
“Terrible, is what it is.”
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"La pistola che ho puntato sulla tempia si chiama Poesia."
Sources:
Joseph M. Gerace. Machine-Water. Hackensack, NJ. 2018.
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versus feelings casual versus research
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weapons of there
be black poems written until love
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brains
souls
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the
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of there william calcraft
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“My mind is made up / of so many cuts / of meat.” David Tomas Martinez
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“Two monster snakes in bristling steely sheen / Did guileful Hera send in bitter hate / Upon the babes their maw to satiate.” Theocritus (trans. James Henry Hallard, 1894)
said he
was eager to get home but bracing
himself for what he might see ill be lucky
celebrations
had already begun in
raqqa
still led forces said on tuesday
rivals
like
kurds and arabs in both iraq
celebrations had already begun in raqqa
office
all fighting
declared a caliphate declared a caliphate
i
declare a caliphate
led forces said he
was
eager to get home but bracing himself for what he might see
led airstrikes that they had taken all fighters were
clear
said on tuesday
Source: Barnard, Anne. “U.S.-Backed Forces Capture Raqqa From ISIS.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/world/middleeast/isis-syria-raqqa.html.
“as if social censure // is all that stops him from rending the sheep a kiss” Patrick Cotter
For Noam
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next two decades
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others to escape
that any cities where some within the effects of climate the
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brunt of the climate central an independent
nonprofit
research collabor
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effects
at climate change
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collaboration could
settle in the heat
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to
avoid those threats
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Source: Bromwich, Jonah Engel. “Where can you escape the harshest effects of climate change?” The New York Times, The New York Times, 20 Oct. 2016.
I’ve woken up long ago. The plane scurries silently overhead, is full of people, of consequence. It is gone in 3 seconds. Passed through the window shade into nowhere. In France and Germany purple contains more red and less blue. A cat of ash I watch intently. As he, too, in silence, trots into the backyard. Does he live in the shed? What do I know? He disperses behind the shed, out of nothing. Is this music too loud? I’m done with questions, it is fine. I used to wonder why John Ashbery bothers with collage, but it’s no longer a concern of mine. I’m older now and I understand. A man is not only a beautyberry or only a painter or only a gondola. He can live anywhere at any time and my body is the mug of coffee that carries me here. If I obscure this mess, watch what it becomes! A pile of ciphers. (A muscular word that I need to be reminded of occasionally. One should be grateful when one is reminded of that word: Cipher. Thank the man and the place who reminds one of it: Matt Taibbi, last night, at the party.) A pile of ciphers like a lover’s alarm clock and reportage, hot and sweet. A pillow for sleeping then. Watch how the ciphers redden and collapse into one another as the temperature rises. The air desaturates. Lungs no longer new, suddenly, nude. I suppose I am a journalist first, and recoil. My socks do not match. Your socks, meanwhile, in mid-flight. Everything purple is discarded on the bedroom floor, gathering little flakes of us. My eyes today are gray, thank you for asking.