https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/category-971-fathers-westford en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:44:22 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-7965-patricide https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-7965-patricide    "-Nadja. This was the name she had chosen for herself. She liked it because 'it is the beginning of the Russian word for hope--and it is only the beginning.'"   -Andre Breton: Nadja  Four years now, and still I haven't responded.   I don't know what I'd do if I saw him today.       What is disgrace? It's wishing  your name was a maiden.   Wishing you'd never seen that hole   in the shit part of town,   Wishing that the smell of the previous occupant's   cigarette fetish would leave   your nostrils.      It's regret, the memory  of the black cat in the open window behind   the stereo.  But the only pang of guilt is a lack of remorse  entirely.  The capacity to write people out    of your poems without a forensic trace.    Sometimes murder can be committed in silence,   wishing for silence to wash your face   and fingers.  Wishing at a lock never changed   the combination.   Perhaps Freud was somewhat right  on one and a half points:  and a cigar   is usually just that.   The damn cat didn't run   away that night, either,   at least it learned to be less inquisitive,   but that's another story.       ... more Michael Mission Harris Synapse: Michael Mission Harris Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:20:58 GMT /section-159-synapse-michael-mission-harris#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/7965 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/7965 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A7965