Sooty

a faint feeling of deja vu, thinking of eliot's "the hollow men"; one feels between the lines of this rather abstract but effective poem the alienated quality of our civilization, particularly the urban landscape. i wonder if i'm just speculating here, since we all live in the same diseased consumerist political climate, but does "Belch Poof Soot" have anything to do with the ill-fated World Trade Center? at any rate, a neat poem, in the cubist tradition, picasso-abstract.

both to pollution and the towers, so slant ... and indirect ... come stronger from the side than if it comes direct. You do the subject(s) justice. Thanx for that. Yours, Chuck