odysseus elytis and i think of ezra pound's fair helena

'cause i said i would, and this paper is beating me to a pulp. hmm.

THE ANTIPHONIST:

What Convinces

Please pay attention to my lips: from them the world depends.
From the associations they risk and the unacceptable
similes as when one fragrant night
we throw the Moon's woodcutter down
he bribes us with a little jasmine and we acquiesce...

What convinces I maintain is like the chemical substance that transmutes.
Let the cheek of a girl be beautiful
all of us with eaten faces will return someday from the Truthsites.

Folks I can't explain it
but it's time to understudy the old Robbers.
To stretch our hand and have it go
where a woman like an apple tree waits half a day in the clouds
ignoring completely the distance that parts us.

And something else: when it starts to rain
let us undress and shine like clover.

WRONG SEA IS IMPOSSIBLE.

from Eros, Eros, Eros by Odysseus Elytis

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a couple scrap things, sheet.metal:

- "understudy" can be a much better use of word and letter and symbol and evocation than the overused and thus numbed down "understand." at times. watch it.

- i love garden path sentences as a tool for writing. mm, mhm.

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i am in some people's memories, apparently. i wonder why and don't think to say much; all my words are a total waste.

that doesn't mean what you think it does