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SIBYLLOGY: Life inside the Saussurean Bar.

“I want to tell you something which brought me no small comfort; perhaps this same thought can lessen your grief. When I was returning from Asia, sailing from Aegina toward Megara, I began to look at the regions all around me. Behind me was Aegina, in front was Megara, on the right Piraeus, on the left Corinth. These were once flourishing towns, but now they lay lifeless and ruined before my eyes. I began to think to myself: “Ah! Are we little men, whose lives are necessarily too brief, indignant if one of us dies or is killed, when in one place so many corpses of towns lie abandoned? Please pull yourself together, Servius, and remember that you were born a mortal man.” Believe me, I was strengthened considerably by this thought.” Servius Rufus in a letter to Cicero

her heart is a blur
against the back wall
with the coldness behind
no way out
but forward —
Through the arching sky.

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One response to “Her Heart is a Blur”

  1. john

    All we can do is hope…Choices may be few but they are still Choices.

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