#senseofanending

[nudeartpluspoetry]

The Breakfast Special

Some people are ordering the Breakfast Special because it's the best they can do. Some people are cooking it. It's the best they can do. This city is a city. It's not the best it can do. At the same time, it doesn't exist. No cities do. They're just jammed together bits and people. This is the point where poems get into trouble and need to stop. It's the best they can do.

hans ostrom 2018

[choi-fantastique-blog]

‘Can I ask you something?’ ‘You always do,’ she replied. ‘Did you leave me because of me?’ ‘No,’ she said. ‘I left you because of us.’

[choi-fantastique-blog]

Yes, of course we were pretentious -

 what else is youth for? We used terms like ‘Weltanschauung’ and ‘Sturm und Drang’, enjoyed saying ‘That’s philosophically self-evident’, and assured one another that the imagination’s first duty was to be transgressive. Our parents saw things differently, picturing their children as innocents suddenly exposed to noxious influence. So Colin’s mother referred to me as his ‘dark angel’; my father blamed Alex when he found me reading The Communist Manifesto; Colin was fingered by Alex’s parents when they caught him with a hard- boiled American crime novel. And so on. It was the same with sex. Our parents thought we might be corrupted by one another into becoming whatever it was they most feared: an incorrigible masturbator, a winsome homosexual, a recklessly impregnatory libertine. On our behalf they dreaded the closeness of adolescent friendship,thepredatorybehaviourofstrangersontrains,thelureof the wrong kind of girl. How far their anxieties outran our experience.  "