in splendid isolation
"In Splendid Isolation," July 20, 2022 (#201)
title from "White Man's Burden: Eminem's Movie Debut in 8 Mile" by Roy Grundmann (2003)
North (1994)
North by Northwest (1959)
North & South by Elizabeth Bishop (1946)
In Splendid Isolation
Holy mackerel. Your folks are sitting on a gold mine.
This meeting is going to turn out to be an enormous
line of long sea-weeded ledges where weeds hang to the simple
orphanage. And if any of you has ever seen the little rascals,
I don't think that one does anything for you
too close together or maybe too far apart. The scenery
needs all that extra time if you're just going to spend it
standing at the crack in the door peering out at Eve's furtive
explosion. Then it dropped to insistent, cautious creeping in the
attention to me. I left them to find folks who'd appreciate
your colorful exit from the auction gallery
but a skeletal lighthouse standing there in black
may not be good enough. I've been sent here
with this thing. There would have been some
circles like stirred-up flakes of sediment sinking.
2-20-21 art by scrola
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