The Discords

I could tell you things
But I’m not old enough—
Just walking over a large and shining ice patch

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Did I eat Prufrock’s peach yesterday?

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Of the bumblebee Lars Gustafsson writes:

“A flying man who lives far within the wood
Has folded up his wings and sleeps in the rain.”

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Up river and down
My childhood
But unlike Huck
No Jim, no friends

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“So that’s what made you a poet!”

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In the forest there are still signs of the old mill.

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Terry Eagleton says pessimism is the most difficult moral condition to obtain.
Silly. He never ate frozen strawberries with a 100 year old monk in rural Finland in winter darkness. In general academics need to get out more.

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If I knew so much parataxis would occupy me
I’d have (instead) invented the shoe horn.

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Everyone has a debt to death
But on clear mornings you can hear them thar pianos…