#we're not without guidance there is a pattern (nothing new under the sun)
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GO THEN BUT KNOW YOU GO AS ONE BELOVED THOUGH YOU GO WITHOUT YOUR MIND
(GO THEN IF YOU MUST AND YET OF THIS BE SURE THAT MAD AS IS YOUR GOING DEARLY ARE YOU LOVED BY THOSE YOU LOVE)
#intertextualizing mayhaps? mayhaps#(first is from anne carson's antigonick; second is from george herbert palmer's translation of the antigone)#AND YOU WITH YOUR HEAD DOWN YOU'RE THE ONE? / BINGO#YOU CHOSE TO LIVE AUTONOMOUS AND SO YOU DIE THE ONLY ONE OF MORTALS TO GO DOWN TO DEATH ALIVE#NEXT WORD IS DEATH / DEATH#I WAS CAUGHT IN AN ACT OF PERFECT PIETY (greater love hath no man)#we're not without guidance there is a pattern (nothing new under the sun)#ANOTHER/ AN HOUR/ AN HOUR AND A HALF/ A YEAR/ A SPLIT SECOND/ A DECADE/ THIS INSTANT/ A SECOND/ A SPLIT SECOND/#A NOW/ A NICK/ A NECK#HERE WE ARE IN A SONG ABOUT JOY HERE WE ARE IN A DAY ABOUT DUST#THE DUST IT TAKES TO HOUSE ENEMIES THE HOUSE IT TAKES TO DUST JUSTICE THE JUSTICE IT TAKES#TO DODGE A BULLET THE BULLET IT TAKES TO JUSTIFY LOVERS THE LOVE IN WHICU TO DELETE YOUR OWN DARLING#the darling you dust the dust you disperse the you who does not does not what does not/ nick#here we are we're all fine/ we're standing in/ the nick of time#...ok I'm fine now just needed to get that out just needed to uhhh scream some vaguely relevant antigonick quotes akskksjfjs#Lu rambles#compare case histories
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