1926
So it's reminiscence time over at Pharyngula. Some of the folks, looking at their relatively innocent selves in old photos, wide eyes oblivious to pleasantness and unpleasantness to come, put me in mind of Weldon Kees' 1926:
(Dunno about linking to this. Is Kees outta copyright yet? If ya feel guilty, go buy an anthology with him in it, assuming you don't already have one.)
(*Edited to add: the server in the link above seems to go down daily, and for extended periods of time. Same work is also at this link.)
...I see the lives
Of neighbors, mapped and marred
Like all the wars ahead, and R.
Insane, B. with his throat cut,
Fifteen years from now, in Omaha.
I did not know them then...Whole thing is over at this site*.
(Dunno about linking to this. Is Kees outta copyright yet? If ya feel guilty, go buy an anthology with him in it, assuming you don't already have one.)
(*Edited to add: the server in the link above seems to go down daily, and for extended periods of time. Same work is also at this link.)
posted by AJM at 10:45 a.m. (Permanent Link)
