“A difficult climb to a beautiful view— I don’t like it. I don’t like the way you make me go positively Protestant all this deferral up to a future only you’ve seen the ascent always leveraged against an alien payoff already prescripted. When we get there I’ll be dead tired too tired to view the view…”— Marie Howe, apmpodcasts.orgTagged: Poetry, The Slowdown, Protestant, Babylon