gratitude to history
Journal Fragment, August
put a $20 gold piece on my watch chain
So the boys will know I died standing pat—
God’ll know. That’s called purgatory.
Buried corridors,
The prison in Texas.
So
“The Romance of Grave-Robbing”
or, G.W. Bush on history: “Why should we care? We’ll be dead.”
cf.
“I make this gift, that you who follow
Will pray for my soul
& thereby nourish your own.”
–a master glazier, on his windows in a 12th Century cathedral.
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