
The Haybale Hair
καί ποτέ μιν στυφελιζομένου σκύλακος παριόντα φασὶν ἐποικτῖραι καὶ τόδε φάσθαι ἔπος·“παῦσαι, μηδὲ ῥάπιζ᾿,ἐπεὶ ἦ φίλου ἀνέρος ἐστὶν ψυχή, τὴν ἔγνων φθεγξαμένης ἀϊών.” —Xenophanes, Fr.7
Random scribblings from my errant Muse
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καί ποτέ μιν στυφελιζομένου σκύλακος παριόντα φασὶν ἐποικτῖραι καὶ τόδε φάσθαι ἔπος·“παῦσαι, μηδὲ ῥάπιζ᾿,ἐπεὶ ἦ φίλου ἀνέρος ἐστὶν ψυχή, τὴν ἔγνων φθεγξαμένης ἀϊών.” —Xenophanes, Fr.7

A Pastoral Of Sorts

A Love Song

Supposing I should meet you soon—

The eggman's wife just opened up the door At nine AM.

My darling let us marry. My darling let us wed No banns no fuss—a witness and a priest— No honeymoon—but straightaway to bed There waiting in th'adjacent suite. Go build your nest of cottonthreads and down— A sleepy hedgehog wintering in brown, A fungus nestling snug among the moss— I shan't disturb.

I knew this mangy retard of a mutt— I hated him.

An Exercise in a Cyrenaic Mode

Man is born in the nominative: nothing but name;

I. Two lovers and the cherries and the game