International Congress of Fear

For the time being, we won't sing of love,
which sought refuge beyond the underground.
We'll sing of fear, which paralizes embraces.
We won't sing of hate because it doesn't exist,
only fear, our father and companion, exists,
the great fear of prairies, seas and deserts,
the fear of soldiers, of mothers, of churches,
we'll sing of the fear of dictators, of democrats,
we'll sing of the fear of death and the fear after death,
afterwards, we'll die of fear
and over our tombs yellow and terrifying flowers will grow.

—Carlos Drummond de Andrade (Brazilian, 1902-1987)

Comments

[elihu]

thank you for that, axt, so rich. by the way - in the ongoing struggle to perfect layout etc, i thought you'd like to see what it's like for me now in chimera .6 on mac - i made a screenshot.

love n rockets,
e (and the sunday morning sleepy doc and dogs)

[david]

Eli - you must have your stylesheets set to override stingykids' - the site was designed on chimera .6 ! Also, can you send a screenshot of what it looks like on IE for Windows?

love