Quote from 'Between Dog and Wolf' by Elske Rahill

It took me a long time in life to realize how rude it is to stand back from something and watch it ...  How disrespectful it it, that watching, because it can rob anything of its validity, make anything ridiculous, because a person cant gaze on life like God. God infuses meaning. This sort of looking takes meaning away.

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Hymn To The Drivers by Michael Symmons Roberts

Every second a child is born, a car is made;
knitted together in factory towns
by robot arms with sparks at their fingertips.
The cars wait, possessed but never owned,
left out in the rain, driven hard.

And the children wait for them, a-stagger
on their slow pins, they watch the elders
slide by behind tinted windscreens, lips
in time with the radio. Deliverance comes
as a set of keys and a card in your name.

Even at night, car power is palpable.
Under linden trees they rest on haunches,
colour indeterminate in sodium light.
Think of them as coiled, not cataleptic,
and the road as open, wet with lime leaves.


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from Drysalter