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ITT: We critique our poetry.

the foul, maddening buzz
weighing on his head
Such a furious welcome home,
unfit for the Sovereign
who tends to his skull-sized
lonely domain
and the crass, miserly
pleasures of his palate
still entranced by
the simple joys of summertime
the bloodred lust,
the rich, luxuriant warmth of
a june morning
Oh the benevolent promise of boyhood:
the many fleeting victories encased
in glass
and sweet, ornamental jewels
taunting
flashing her crystalline charms
flirting with the want
straining on your bones,
nestled in the marrow
like the clay of the sculptor,
like the grief of the drunk;
prodding at those
delusional spirits
tending
to the garden of your greed
sowing
the olivine and green
-- exultant
of the most high,
fortunes of stature
fortunes eternal
fortunes everlasting!
these familiar, sour temptations
they still buzz
purring in their sleep
cold, subdued, squandered
sunken
in the rust
of that old abundant Kingdom
throned by conceit,
and devoured

>By far the most psychologically intense of Repin’s paintings
Have you seen his depiction of the letter of the Zaporogian cossacks to the great Turk, the Russian revolution of 1905, hhis bunch of Russian pilgrims in Kursk, the surgeon Pavlov,. Ivy the Terrible is simple memecraft. Besides it is a pre-Romanov tsar. There's nothing edgy about painting that back in the Repin era. And, by the way, who painted the execution of Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov-Chelyadin? Another fine history painting on Ivan IV. Or: him showing his treasury to the English embassy. This isn't bad at all. Are you a slv?

>>6449188
The titan Saturn and his son. Only instead of devouring him, he just shits and pisses on him to death.