“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless.”
Ray Bradbury

I would give this anger
to Orion, whom I’ve only recently learned to identify,
forever on his back foot, his stories go
from bad to worse, and the benzene rises
like a prayer, arsenic on the breath
cold makes visible

‘Orion’, a poem by Karen Solie: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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