Sometimes A Journey Makes Itself

I've Come To Understand That The Best One Can Hope For As A Human Is To Have A Relationship With That Emptiness Where God Would Be If God Were Available, But God Isn't.

Novels Institutionalize The Ruse Of Eros. It Becomes A Narrative Texture Of Sustained Incongruence, Emotional And Cognitive. It Permits The Reader To Stand In Triangular Relation To The Characters In The Story And Reach Into The Text After The Objects Of Their Desire, Sharing Their Longing But Also Detached From It, Seeing Their View Of Reality But Also Its Mistakenness. It Is Almost Like Being In Love.

A Page With A Poem On It Is Less Attractive Than A Page With A Poem On It And Some Tea Stains.

Here We Go Mother On The Shipless Ocean. Pity Us, Pity The Ocean, Here We Go.

Under The Seams Runs The Pain.