Love this poem written long before our over connected age. MORE OR LESS Nature copies Art, said Oscar Wilde. Out therefore with the old inheritance, Rooms so overfurnished the heart sinks, Moulding and fringe, high ozone-whitened panes, Precious. woods and mirror cataract, The million doodad species catching dust. In with lack of clutter, starkly styled, Only the fittest vertebrates and plants, Cactus habitat and goldfish bowl, Little to smarten up our costly prefab Unless a holograph of (say) Einstein Bespectacled, white-maned, a breathing sphinx — Prints ever-thinning air with the myopic Simplicity of those who live here still, Their sad knowhow, their fingertip control. #Jamesmerrill #moreorless #interior #happyhoarding https://www.instagram.com/p/CKu9Gxjldxk/?igshid=85ka8dpygalb
