a Geography
of Melancholy
of Melancholy
journey into desolation
told with
AI-generated
fine art,
and
prose verse
text
AI-generated
fine art,
and
prose verse
text
for those
whom
God, Life, Love
and the
Universe
failed
whom
God, Life, Love
and the
Universe
failed
Dedication
Preface
Nothing now
The Lived Dead
Geography of melancholy
Whereverer yu goho
You despair very well
POEM :: LOVE’S LAST HATE
What You Choose It Ends
If there was one
A thing or of thingness
Running from the run
POEM :: INTERREGNUM
Fragmen ts and yo u f rag m ente d
The gauntlet of each of
POEM :: FAREWELL, FAIR WORLD
Or look back
Signage gives signposts but the
POEM :: I HAD DREAMED
voided spaces hold no
Before any king
Colophon
Reprise
Coda
Preface
Nothing now
The Lived Dead
Geography of melancholy
Whereverer yu goho
You despair very well
POEM :: LOVE’S LAST HATE
What You Choose It Ends
If there was one
A thing or of thingness
Running from the run
POEM :: INTERREGNUM
Fragmen ts and yo u f rag m ente d
Prison of many cells in you are bone
The form of substance, it’s nothingThe gauntlet of each of
POEM :: FAREWELL, FAIR WORLD
Or look back
Signage gives signposts but the
POEM :: I HAD DREAMED
voided spaces hold no
Before any king
Colophon
Reprise
Coda
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Preface
Though this book is a visual and textual journey of despair, desolation and defeat such things are not without their beauty. Ruined places remind us of the triumph of nature, of the necessity of time to bring change to what for all its hubris tries to remain the same. If the narrative is about defeat it's also about taking in hand that loss and owning it, affirming it, and making of it an exploration of the darker, drearier side of possibility. How we handle disappointment is individual depending on the strength of its devastation.
Chapter 3
a geography of melancholy
needing no garbage-lined street, or cast away cars, dead
vermin feral cats won't dare to eat
means no road less taken
is any less forsaken
needing no garbage-lined street, or cast away cars, dead
vermin feral cats won't dare to eat
means no road less taken
is any less forsaken
Chapter 4
Congratulations, you despair very well, revealing rifts narrow and deep or
shallow and wide wounds in the skin of the earth are not sanctuaries of
safety the sordid pastorale shapes of your sorrowfulnesses dogging your steps
with a gut punch thunderball and infinite chances to fall,
shallow and wide wounds in the skin of the earth are not sanctuaries of
safety the sordid pastorale shapes of your sorrowfulnesses dogging your steps
with a gut punch thunderball and infinite chances to fall,
Chapter 8
for what's left
when hiding can't be hidden, are
long things longing to seduce you,
high things with fright, chain you to
swoll vestiges of torn beauty, hunt
you for food and for sport, make
wild desolation out of wilderness
devoid of animal plant stream cloud
a rainy wet void of sun rise or set yet the broadside
of a foul domicile
when hiding can't be hidden, are
long things longing to seduce you,
high things with fright, chain you to
swoll vestiges of torn beauty, hunt
you for food and for sport, make
wild desolation out of wilderness
devoid of animal plant stream cloud
a rainy wet void of sun rise or set yet the broadside
of a foul domicile
POEM:: Interregnum
let me disintegrate, leave me to stoke the quaking heartbreak rebroke
licking the anger red swallowing the river back to the bleeding
the well of its needing faking the false fraudulent facetious flatulent
foolhardy l(ove, the, the
repeat the) alibi, salivate the next sentences, repent, repeat
licking the anger red swallowing the river back to the bleeding
the well of its needing faking the false fraudulent facetious flatulent
foolhardy l(ove, the, the
repeat the) alibi, salivate the next sentences, repent, repeat
Chapter 12
your landscape
is passage through
inchoate terrain where order anarchic
narcisssitc necessity to be disorderly to rearrange to blend and fuse to shuffle your many minds in bewildered variety of patterns to splatter everything that ever mattered into a mass of mostly messy misanthropy
is passage through
inchoate terrain where order anarchic
narcisssitc necessity to be disorderly to rearrange to blend and fuse to shuffle your many minds in bewildered variety of patterns to splatter everything that ever mattered into a mass of mostly messy misanthropy
POEM:: Farewell, Fair World
leave you now and your gridwork streets piled high with steel
and office tower economically secure but in no other way leave this day
the girdle of normative suburban stability looking up to a vacant sky
with nowhere to further fly but nevertheless leave
your incendiary streets
and office tower economically secure but in no other way leave this day
the girdle of normative suburban stability looking up to a vacant sky
with nowhere to further fly but nevertheless leave
your incendiary streets
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CONTENT WARNING
This book is intended for mature readers comfortable with the highly-charged language of anguish, and may not be suitable for all. The subject matter and content could be disturbing, including the use of sexual metaphors. The author’s intent is not to provoke for its own sake, but to explore a complex and challenging theme. While the journey is dark and unsettling, it finishes with the possibility of deliverance.
This book is intended for mature readers comfortable with the highly-charged language of anguish, and may not be suitable for all. The subject matter and content could be disturbing, including the use of sexual metaphors. The author’s intent is not to provoke for its own sake, but to explore a complex and challenging theme. While the journey is dark and unsettling, it finishes with the possibility of deliverance.
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