Depressing these utopias
leave no room for chance
but sort all to an order
difference won’t abide
no habitation in taxonomy
miscellanies have no grant
nor with all else in place
may any old thing slink to
its usual any old place
there’s nowhere left to hide
TOM MANDEL AFTER GEORGES PEREC
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