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(erasures from The Beatitudes, The Apostles Creed, The Ten Commandments, The Eucharist, The Lord’s Prayer – The Bible)

(found in Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences – Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida)

(cut-up from The Fourth Book – Meditations by Marcus Aurelius)

(found in The Philosophy of Beards by T.S. Growing)

(found in The Bubbles of Sáki. – The Philosophy of Despair by David Starr Jordan)

(erasure from Chapter XV. Destiny – Political and Religious. – The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson)

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(erasure from Part Second. Essays. I. The Unseen World. – The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske)

(found in Synopsis of Contents – The White Spark by Orville Livingston Leach)

For those who may be following my daily postings from &there4, I’m pleased that today’s comes via International Times, with my thanks to them and Rupert. Read the poem here.

The image is a genteel foil to the tone of the poem…