Your Daily Lear

 

--words and image by Edward Lear

And happy birthday to Janice Timko, who apparently now lives in Austin, Texas.

Your Daily Lear

 

---words and image by Edward Lear

Men Made Out of Words

What should we be without the sexual myth, 

The human revery or poem of death?

 Castratos of moon-mash---Life consists

 Of propositions about life. The human

 Revery is a solitude in which

 We compose these propositions, torn by dreams,

 By the terrible incantations of defeats, 

And by the fear that defeats and dreams are one.

 The whole race is a poet that writes down

 The eccentric propositions of its fate.

---Wallace Stevens

photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson

London, 1950s or 60s