Don't have to share it with nobody else.
Lock the gates, Goofy, take my hand
And lead me through the World of Self."
-- Splendid Isolation, 1989, by Warren Zevon (1947-2003), Los Angeles, Calif.
The pure products of America
go crazy
... as if the earth under our feet were
an excrement of some sky
and we degraded prisoners
destined
to hunger until we eat filth
while the imagination strains
after deer
going by fields of goldenrod in
the stifling heat of September
somehow
it seems to destroy us
It is only in isolate flecks that
something
is given off
No one
to witness
and adjust, no one to drive the car
-- "To Elsie," 1923, by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), Rutherford, N.J.
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Damn, the "red wheelbarrow" goes nutz!
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