Tuesday, August 20, 2002

here’s a bit of the

here’s a bit of the good stuff:
Before you condemn this eminent freak
as an outrage upon mankind,
reflect: something there is in him
that must forever seek

to share the condition it glorifies,
to shed the skin that keeps it apart,
to bury its grace in a human bed -
and it walks on knives, on knives.

C Day Lewis, from Almost Human