A Writer's Ruminations

"Kafka said, A book
must be an axe

for the frozen sea
inside us, which sounds

great, but what good
is an axe against

a frozen sea?
Perhaps this is why

he said, while dying,
Destroy everything."

— Matt Rasmussen, from “Elegy in X Parts” (via proustitute)

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