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And always the cutting out and the buggering about and the buggering about and the rewriting and so on ...

Men are fools to invest in real estate.

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

The mason stirs.
Words!
Pens are too light.
Take a chisel to write.

Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.

Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.