Wednesday, April 28, 2010

blonde wigs and red heads

i am sitting and drinking an overwhelming amount of coffee; i feel so collected yet sporadic, as if my ten various elongate rope creatures can't connect to my bones anymore, so i just kind of let them writhe out of their spockets; i need to accomplish eight things today and it seems i need to take inspiration from very boring creations which enlist zero creativity just because i need to feel at ease about things. too much stimulation by inherently stimulating people can distract me from my work, and right now i just need to especially focus on things like ghana's resource curse and my looming stressful week because oh lord that's how it goes. so it goes.

Friday, April 16, 2010

the second coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Tuesday, April 6, 2010