a weird energy

image: captain john g. bourke / scatalogic rites of all nations / 1891 / in public domain.

7 Seconds So Salubrious

1. This writer’s weevils are roosting in the endive.

2. Debug your respirator if you have not.

3. Retrieve your half-brother & samovar from the half-note sanatorium.

4. The Englishman’s welt & the enema sampler will clear out your endowment of weight & indictment of rosebuds.

5. There is a weird energy in this world.

6. Endorse nothing but your nightmares.

7. Consider “the huge unknown wave that is already rolling toward us.”

image: levi walter yaggy / “nature in descending regions” / from geographical portfolio / 1893 / in public domain.

What I’m Reading:

“… if you live another thirty years and are still enjoying it, or most of it – if anyone will be enjoying, or indeed living, considering the huge unknown wave that is already rolling toward us – I expect you will look at a picture of yourself as you are today, supposing your personal effects have survived flood, fire, famine, plague, insurrection, invasion, or whatever – and you will say, ‘How young I was then!’”

— Margaret Atwood / “Widows”

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About istsfor manity

i'm a truncated word-person looking for an assemblage of extracted teeth in a tent full of mosquitoes (and currently writing a novel without writing a novel word) and pulling nothing but the difficult out of the top hat while the bunny munches grass in the hallway. you might say: i’m thee asynchronous voice over in search of a film....
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