Observances

Problem II

— no matter what we do

the machines

just move the hunger two flights higher,

now it rests in the heart.

Rolf Jacobsen (1975) Trans. Roger Greenwald, h/t Pome by Matthew Ogle

…put down that gun, you need a sandwich.

Mary Karr, “The Voice of God”

All night the truth happens.

Michael Ondaatje (1974), from “Country Night” h/t Pome By Matthew Ogle

There are no unsacred places; 

there are only sacred places

and desecrated places.

Wendell Berry, “How to be a Poet”

οἱ γὰρ ἄνθρωποι πρὸς ἃ ἔπασχον τὴν μνήμην ἐποιοῦντο.

Thucydides, 2.54.