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12.06.2010

unseasonal verse

It's a good idea to write a poem about the first of May in November or December, when you feel a desperate need for May.

—Vladimir Mayakovsky, How Are Verses Made? (1926)

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  1. What a coincidence! Some disowned ephemera from a few years back:

    EPHEMERA

    It's a good idea to write a poem about the first of May in November or December, when you feel a desperate need for May.
    --Vladimir Mayakovsky, from How Are Verses Made?

    I fly from the present by two routes, that of the past
    and that of the future.

    --Lamennais, Correspondence, II, 378.

    Which is to say

    To
    Morrow

    May

    Fly
    Away

    To
    Day

    Already
    Yesterday.

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