by Alfrredo Navarro Salanga
I
O his hammer has lost its head
all else lies shattered in its stead
What wood there was for building
has gone the way of mourning
The carpenter no longer sings
II
O his hammer
has lost its head
all else lies
shattered in its stead
What wood there was
for building
Has gone the way
of mourning
The carpenter
no longer sings
III
O
his
hammer
has lost its head
all
else
lies
shattered in its stead
What
wood
there was
for building
has
gone
the
way
of mourning
The
carpenter
no
longer
sings
IV
O his HAMMER has lost its head
all else lies SHATTERED in its stead
What WOOD there was for building
has gone the way of MOURNING
The CARPENTER no longer sings
V
O his HAMMER has lost its HEAD
all else lies SHATTERED in its STEAD
What WOOD there was for BUILDING
has GONE the way of MOURNING
The CARPENTER no longer SINGS
VI
O his hammer has lost its head
The carpenter no longer sings
All else lies shattered in its stead
The carpenter no longer sings
What wood there was for building
has gone the way of mourning
VII
The carpenter no longer sings
THE carpenter no longer sings
The CARPENTER no longer sings
The carpenter NO longer sings
The carpenter no LONGER sings
The carpenter no longer SINGS
21 August 1983
“…if you can’t survive in this world, you had better make a world of your own.”
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“…like most of us [Babel Dark] prayed for one thing, and set his life on course for elsewhere.”
-Lighthousekeeping (Jeanette Winterson)
“She had never depended on him, but she had loved him, which was quite different.”
-Molly O’Rourke on Babel Dark, Lighthousekeeping (Jeanette Winterson)
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“She spoke about [my Future] as though it were an incurable disease.”
-Silver, Lighthousekeeping (Jeanette Winterson)
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only once.”
-Jojen Reed, Book 5 of A Song for Ice and Fire: A Dance with Dragons (George R.R. Martin)
I want ‘em all. :3
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