unexpected and increasingly disturbing scene at the Goodwill

note

a straight jacket
is not
a hug machine

tidying up

(notes from an essay on Lem's 'Solaris')

supple and satisfactory
literary cognition
history and methodology
development and implications
catastrophic alternatives
non-dogmatic, open, yet plausible
techno-sociological antifascist
well-aimed allegorical shafts
anthropocentric criteria
biopsychological puzzle
deepest life-affirming heresies
simple and difficult realization

self immolation or spontaneous combustion

fear -
I invited it in
spent all day
baking bread with it
and finally
we settled into an uneasy truce

but rage -
I cannot admit
the dangerous breath on my neck
and the fire in my soul
stop me

outside my (dirty) livingroom window

yes, it has been snowing