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Catullus 12

While everyone else is laughing & drinking you extend     a surreptitious claw, Asinius,     towards the table napkins of the negligent…     an unattractive habit you misguidedly think funny. You demur?     I assure you it is at once squalid & unattractive. Ask Pollionus, your brother a boy crackling with wit who would give a substantial sum to […]

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“Dreams” by Wislawa Szymborska

Despite the geologists’ knowledge and craft, mocking magnets, graphs, and maps— in a split second the dream piles before us mountains as stony as real life. And since mountains, then valleys, plains with perfect infrastructures. Without engineers, contractors, workers, bulldozers, diggers, or supplies— raging highways, instant bridges, thickly populated pop-up cities. Without directors, megaphones, and […]

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Sailing to Byzantium – W.B. Yeats

That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees – Those dying generations – at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unageing intellect. […]