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Lines 44-45 of Guillaume Apollinaire’s poem Le Bestiaire (1911) read: Belles journées, souris du temps, Vous rongez peu à peu ma vie. (Beautiful days, time’s mice, gnawing little by little my life away.)

Lines 44-45 of Guillaume Apollinaire’s poem Le Bestiaire (1911) read: Belles journées, souris du temps, Vous rongez peu à peu ma vie. (Beautiful days, time’s mice, gnawing little by little my life away.)

(Source: tamarinnorwood.co.uk)

Goodbye, Lonesome.

Goodbye, Lonesome.

(Source: poets.org)

Some Time by Louis Zukofsky

Some Time by Louis Zukofsky