Fly on the M6

... watching flies take off and land from OS OL5 was like watching jump jets take off from the Ark Royal, they may not be beautiful but are astonishing.

When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone (Galway Kinnell)

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When one has lived a long time alone,
sour, misanthropic, one fit's one's defiance
the satanic boast, It is better to reign
in hell than to submit on earth, and forgets
one's kind - the way by now the snake does,
who stops trying to get to the floor and lingers
all across one's body, slumping into its contours,
adopting its temperature - and abandons hope
of the sweetness of friendship or love,
before long can barely remember what they are,
and covets the stillness of inorganic matter,
in a self-dissolution one may not know how to halt,
when one has lived a long time alone.