Wednesday, January 4, 2017

There's No Floor to the Universe and Yet One Walks the Floor










SUBSTANTIAL PLANES

A.R. Ammons

It doesn't
matter

to me
if

poems mean
nothing:

there's no
floor

to the
universe

and yet
one

walks the
floor.



2 comments:

  1. The Dems are pretty competent at getting paid to lose. They're the Washington Generals of politics.

    P.S. Happy New Year!
    ~

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  2. @Messenger's Booker: Barbara Tuchman's 1966 The Proud Tower is well-written Disaster Porn -- a look at the major currents in European (and parenthetically, American) politics and culture racing towards that big red line in the historical calendar, The Great War.

    It's disaster porn because the Reader (unlike the poor sods who had to live the Real Thing -- dirt, hard physical labor, penury and hunger, disease and sharp class borders) knows what's coming. Tuchman uses the Poe line as the book's epigram: And from a proud tower above the town / Death looked gigantically down. Like to say that doesn't seem like a bit of foreshadowing for our current time, but.

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