malaise

surfaces and depths

  of my sickness -

      my adventure,

precursor to the encounter

            of STOWE and POE

smiling corpses wave on crooked boats

humorously demystifying romance:

            ordinary romance,

                        torture to the soul...

                        trivial to the mind...

crucified ambitions                         (to detail)

  customed to a haughty demeanor

ordinary:

  my sickness