https://rommy.micro.blog/categories/literature/ en Sat, 06 Jan 2024 14:19:45 -0400 https://rommy.micro.blog/2024/01/06/it-seemed-to.html Sat, 06 Jan 2024 14:19:45 -0400 http://rommy.micro.blog/2024/01/06/it-seemed-to.html <p>It seemed to him the room of an inhibited bachelor. It was dimly horrifying, like timid secret desires for unattainable intimacies.</p> <p>Graham Greene The Confidential Agent</p> https://rommy.micro.blog/2023/12/10/charles-bukowski-the.html Sun, 10 Dec 2023 22:53:35 -0400 http://rommy.micro.blog/2023/12/10/charles-bukowski-the.html <p>Charles Bukowski - The Wasted Profession</p> <img src="https://rommy.micro.blog/uploads/2023/5720d3e274.jpg" width="337" height="600" alt="the wasted profession&10;&10;all the words, you know, it's hard to tell if you're truly on course or on some vanity trip: how much can be said, how much has already been said, and why?&10;other writers' words do me little good, then, why should mine be special?&10;all my words... do they create laughter through the flame?&10;&10;the same poets reading over and&10;over again in the same venues; I am embarrassed for them and for myself:&10;do we really think that we are fashioning speech more unusual than a stock market or weather report?&10;&10;all the words—we type away-on and on—most of us living lives ordinary and without courage are we sick to think that our speech is&10;exceptional?&10;&10;I don't like us and I never did —is there anything worse than a creature who lives only to write poetry?"> https://rommy.micro.blog/2023/12/05/pomegranate-by-louise.html Tue, 05 Dec 2023 09:55:06 -0400 http://rommy.micro.blog/2023/12/05/pomegranate-by-louise.html <p>Pomegranate by Louise Glück</p> <img src="https://rommy.micro.blog/uploads/2023/f6cedceba41a35c4.png" width="337" height="600" alt="">