Logical Unsanity

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Coyote country.
The nearby swamp eco-system goes down blazing with ignus fatui.
In the fields of chaos, in the land of awful shadow,
in a dream within a dream,
guardians of as-yet-undiscovered astral treasures
camera-eye the six-sheeters,
while nameless Americans take
the fall for paper-hanging scams,
and for faulty visions, and unregistered artillery.
The son of the widow crowds the mourners for a glimpse of the great mutation. -
No one is surprised when he spits up something he never Swallowed.
Where art is wanting, beasts are superior.
My sources tell me there are radios and chemistry sets
hidden in the ancient songs – rabbit-holes and wardrobes
folding in phase space.
I, your reporter, an artist with my familiars,
stand here scanning invisible landscapes,
watching an atavistic alphabet in action.
Call this place Coyote Country. Read on »

“This is the marriage of the soul, it is a contract between two sensitive and virtuous persons. I say sensitive because a monk, a solitary, may not be at all wicked and live without knowing friendship. I say virtuous because the wicked have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the viruous have friends. Cethegus was the accomplice of Catiline, and Maecenas the courtier of Octavius, but Cicero was the friend of Atticus. …”

From Voltaire – Philosophical Dictionary
Edited and translated by Theodore Besterman