Material
The dream is real enough
to sleep through life, pretending
fashion matters: madras
bleeds for you. Belief,
we know, is strong enough
to judge ourselves an open
book: seersucker thinks
for you. Our guilt grows common:
polyester rules.
~Son Rivers 2006
BEFORE AND AFTER
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Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) wrote two rather similar yet effective autumn
verses. Though he would have called them “haiku” because of his revisionist
tendenc...
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