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“I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” So goes possibly the most well-known phrase written by Samuel Beckett, appearing in his 1953 novel The Unnamable.  The statement can be interpreted in two immediately discernible ways.  Firstly, it has been contemporaneously raised as a mantra for stoicism and perseverance in the face of hardship, and in… Read more

I can feel myself slipping into Poetry because I’m slipping more and more of my Bludgeoned days into the drawers of poems Drawn from myself out of nothing between Emailing and list-calling and cell-filling and during Sleepless nights scanning the sheep-less Fields of my memories excavating the buried scraps All buzzed with insomnolent abstraction Before… Read more