Overturned Soil
Ill-timed notes sung
flat, twitches of the brush
beyond borders
preordained—in them
he saw only stains to be
winced from mind
instead of milkable
breaks, muses nudging
the stream toward
unguessed glory
that could wind up
crowning them lynchpin stars.
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)
Bob Ross and Miles Davis- strange bedfellows.