Thursday, January 1, 2004

Dutch Mistress Comments

Rating: 3.3

A hotel in whose ledgers departures are more prominent than arrivals.
With wet Koh-i-noors the October rain
strokes what's left of the naked brain.
In this country laid flat for the sake of rivers,
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Joseph Brodsky
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James Frederick 11 November 2008

'Morning enters the premises with a coroner's punctuality, puts its ear to the ribs of a cold radiator, detects sub-zero: the afterlife has to start somewhere.' What a harsh way to imagine a day beginning (beginning with the end) . Sometimes it is true.

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