young aryans in love

(via @itssylviaplath)

Trump triumphant.

"Cornell, who never felt at home in his own body or in his own house, makes his boxes as a nest for himself." --Gabriel Josipovici, Hotel Andromeda (2014)

Sanskrit loanwords in Indonesian.

"The idea of using a written apostrophe before the 's' to identify a genitive singular was not adopted until the seventeenth century, and the idea of using it after the 's' to identify a genitive plural was not adopted until the eighteenth century." --Culpepper, History of English

Mexican fuels.

your enslaving yon a
lousy ravening yon a
gravely noisy noun a
runny lion's voyage a
slung ivory anyone a
over us annoyingly a
snarling envoy you a
loony rev unsaying a
noisily nervy guano a
gunnery ivy saloon a
royal ninny's vogue a
ninny argosy ovule a
nosegay a runny viol
only a yang souvenir

Nor is it Written.

(via @SaladinAhmed)

before ploys

blind
surrounded by candles
sound of rain on the windshield
historic jellyfish

increases
decreases
rattles anew
strip of paler sky
at the horizon

red light on a tower

All about Boys for Pele.

my car silver gray
the color of this sky
tail lights glow
i am come

from the future you prevented

"Gossip, black rumors, subversions, insults, trolling, lies, deceits, cyberwar, rape allegations – even sabotage and leaks. These pollutants used to be filtered out of the public discourse by cautious media gatekeepers. Now they are weaponized."

a sticky croak

(pic by kathy robinson-hays)

Fake news sites.

"“It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.” ―Cyril Connolly, 1949

"How is anything like governance or politics possible when there isn’t any shared reality?"

(via jessica eliassen on fb)

huaco silbador

(via @HarrySKeeler)

Grypsera.

"Ghosh attributes our current inability to see, represent, and understand environmental crisis to a probabilistic worldview that emerged in the 19th century and made no room for such 'uncanny' weather phenomena as freak tornadoes. Indeed, he argues that 'the uncanny intimacy of our relationship with the nonhuman' would only be tolerated in the realm of the supernatural, in the ghost stories of Charles Dickens or Henry James." --Stacey Balkan at Public Books blog, via aldaily

Hüzün redux. More.

"Just as no one knows the real nature of God but God himself, so no one knows the real nature of a prophet but a prophet." --al-Ghazzali, The Alchemy of Happiness (tr Murray, 1910)

"As the dream of becoming the world’s language becomes increasingly remote, many Esperantists are embracing the status of 'self-elected diasporic minority,' proclaiming themselves speakers of a language just as worthy and particular as any other..."

"One cannot emphasise enough just how crucial was the mass domestication of the car, ensuring the transition from what might be called 'traditional solidarities' to the unprecedented unleashing of modern individualism. What does it matter if the car kills, pollutes, and often makes people into total jerks, its proliferation destroying every urban space worthy of the name, when what is at stake is to ensure the domestication of gigantic human masses, the forging of thousands of psychologies of average men on wheels, 'highway mentalities', aping day and night the fluidities and competition of the Great market, etching it into the landscape ....?"

--Gilles Chatelet, To Live and Think Like Pigs (via Spurious)

"The trajectory of Silliman’s blog is a cautionary tale for poets."