"quote" of the day

Truly, I live in dark times!
The guideless word is folly. A smoothed forehead.
Suggests insensitivity. The man who laughs
Has simply not yet had
The terrible news.

-- Bertolt Brecht - To Those Born Later (1938)

The Apology

I apologies
for my mistaken identity
as the angelic fair curled curved carved young-woman-who’s-a-beast.

Venus humbly presents
the mutually fortuitous fornication
of the bacteria feasting on our festive organs.

The fetishes I hide:
sharp brim imaginations
scenes of a broken frame
the emigration of those malicious circumstances
resonate
the banal existence of dining tables
and door bells.

I
sincerely
apologies for my dull convictions,
partial disclosures-

though, when you believe the maggots
in the afterlife
what room does our accidental breakfast occupy?