Adam Fieled (Logan Square, Philadelphia, USA): "Run Away With Me"
for Dani Diendorf
I was thinking as I listened to her about Byron’s relentless nihilism,
that only found out in intoxication any kind of remedy for the things
she was telling me about abortions, forced entries, deaths, and how no I won’t go
home with you, and how Byron alone among the Romantics dealt
overtly with sex, not just love like Shelley or fantasy like Keats or Nature
like Wordsworth the dull sheep, and all the blokes in the bar were
staring at her— green eyes, red hair, bust, you know the kind that blokes
will stare at, and I thought Byron really caught something a seed,
a kernel of what Nietzsche ran away with (recurrence!), so I said please run
away with me and she laughed, looked down into her beer and was finished—
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