some place off the coast of Massachusetts

message from the Kinks (ca 1967)

Tea in the morning, tea in the evening, tea at supper time,
You get tea when it's raining, tea when it's snowing.
Tea when the weather's fine

"We are the drowned ones ...

... let the waters come."

ونحنُ الغرقى ياسيّـدتي
نحن الغرقى
فلْـيأتِ الماء …


أمريكا,أمريكا

سعدي يوسف

America, America
Saadi Youssef
Damascus, 20 August 1995

________________________


"When the flood calls
You have no home, you have no walls"

Here comes the flood
Peter Gabriel
1976

Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?

______________________________

"... Swift came the Loba ... Was there such flesh made ever and unmade !"

Ezra Pound
Pierre Vidal Old
1926

... a botched civilization ...

"When will this system lie down in its grave?"

Alf's Fifth Bit (1935)
in Personæ

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
Hailey, Idaho, États-Unis, 30 octobre 1885 – 1 novembre 1972 à Venise

"This cruel country has driven me down ..."

Withered and Died
Richard Thompson
1974

Portland, Maine
home 1983 and 1984

joyeuses fêtes de fin d'année

"Aber plötzlich, schräg und ungeübt ...

"... hält sie doch ein Sternbild unsrer Stimme in den Himmel ..."

Rainer Maria Rilke

Die Sonette an Orpheus
Erster Teil, VIII

Château de Muzot im Februar 1922

amuses bouches

looking for an angry fix ...

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked"

Howl
Allen Ginsberg
1956

Arthur Stanley Jefferson (1890 - 1965)

book dream

Everybody knows ...

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
...
Everybody knows it's coming apart
...
Everybody knows
That's how it goes


(Leonard Cohen's ode to wikileaks?)