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Wiki: "...talking horses and rodeo, roughstock events, wrecks and injuries sustained, the submarine Thresher lost two months earlier with all hands and how it must have been in the last doomed minutes..."

Wiki: "The ranch was twenty-two miles south of Slope in mima mound country — what old men called biscuit land, low domes of earth cast up on the plain by ancient rodents or frost action, no one was sure..."

05. People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water, 3 stars. Boy leaves home with wanderlust, comes back a mangled pervert years later.
06. The Bunchgrass Edge of the World, 3 stars. Fat girl dreams of being rescued from ranch life, tractor talks to her.
07. Pair a Spurs, 3 stars. Lonely rancher goes sexmad after his divorce, beautiful spurs bring bad luck.

01. The Half-Skinned Steer, 4 stars. Old man takes the long way back home to attend his estranged brother's funeral.
02. The Mud Below, 3 stars. Stubborn boy decides to be a bullrider, toughs it out until seriously injured.
03. Job History, 3 stars. A man's long life of disappointments and business failures.
04. The Blood Bay, 4 stars. Foolish man freezes to death, feet get cut off by an admirer of his fancy boots.

SICK JOKES [3/3]
 160. Evelyn Pyne - A Witness
 161. Thomas Hood - The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer
 162. Anonymous - Edward, Edward
 163. Alan Dugan - Tribute to Kafka for Someone Taken
 164. Walter de la Mare - The Feckless Dinner-Party
 165. Kenneth Fearing - Dirge

SICK JOKES [2/3]
 154. Rudyard Kipling - The Undertaker's Horse
 155. Algernon Charles Swinburne - After Death
 156. Thomas Hardy - 'Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?'
 157. Owen Meredith - The Portrait
 158. Anonymous - Lord Randal
 159. Thomas Hardy - At The Draper's

SICK JOKES [1/3]
 147. W.H. Auden - Miss Gee
 148. Thomas Hood - Tim Turpin
 149. Richard Harris Barham - The Legend of Hamilton Tighe
 150. William Wordsworth - Goody Blake and Harry Gill
 151. Robert W. Service - The Cremation of Sam McGee, 3 stars. [2022]
 152. Robert Graves - The Suicide in the Copse
 153. Thomas Hardy - In the Cemetery

CRUELTY [2/2]
 140. Owen Meredith - Going Back Again
 141. John Donne - The Apparition
 142. Robert Browning - The Laboratory
 143. Thomas Middleton - from The Witch
 144. Percy Bysshe Shelley - from The Cenci
 145. Thomas Lovell Beddoes - from Death's Jest Book
 146. Robert Browning - Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis

CRUELTY [1/2]
 133. George D. Painter - from The Road to Sinodun
 134. William Blake - A Poison Tree
 135. Anonymous - A Little Boy Threw
 136. Christopher Marlowe - from The Jew of Malta
 137. William Rowley - from The Witch of Edmonton
 138. Robert Browning - Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
 139. William Plomer - Mews Flat Mona

LOVESICKNESS [4/4]
 126. Michael Field - Your Rose is Dead
 127. William Blake - The Sick Rose
 128. Michael Field - A Dying Viper
 129. William Blake - 'I saw a Chapel all of gold'
 130. Thomas Gordon Hake - The Snake-Charmer
 131. John Betjeman - Late-Flowering Lust
 132. Peter Porter - Metamorphosis

Word: "Still doth his soul's vague longing skim
The pool beloved: he hears the hiss
That siffles at the sedgy rim,
Recalling days of former bliss,
And the death-drops, that fall in showers,
Seem honied dews from shady flowers."

1. intr. To blow with a sibilant sound; to whistle, hiss.

LOVESICKNESS [3/4]
 119. John Keats - La Belle Dame Sans Merci
 120. Augusta Webster - Circe
 121. Richard Le Gallienne - Beauty Accurst
 122. George D. Painter - from The Road to Sinodun
 123. Vincent O'Sullivan - The Lady
 124. Thomas Beedome - The Question and Answer
 125. John Donne - The Flea

LOVESICKNESS [2/4]
 113. John Collop - The Leper Cleansed
 114. Francis Bret Harte - What the Bullet Sang
 115. Richard Crashaw - Upon the Bleeding Crucifix
 116. Wilfred Owen - Greater Love
 117. John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley - from Jael
 118. Algernon Charles Swinburne - Faustine

LOVESICKNESS [1/4]
 107. Lionel Johnson - The Dark Angel
 108. Arthur Symons - Bianca
 109. Thomas Gordon Hake - The Birth of Venus
 110. Ted Hughes - Macaw and Little Miss
 111. Jack Clemo - The Plundered Fuchsias
 112. William Empson - Letter II

CORPSE-LOVE [4/4]
 101. Isaac Rosenberg - Dead Man's Dump
 102. Lascelles Abercrombie - from The Sale of St Thomas
 103. John Marston - from The Wonder of Women: or the Tragedy of Sophonisba
 104. Ted Hughes - Vampire
 105. Peter Redgrove - Corposant
 106. Thomas Lovell Beddoes - from Death's Jest Book

CORPSE-LOVE [3/4]
 095. John Addington Symonds - A Dream of Burial in Mid-Ocean
 096. Emily Dickinson - Dying
 097. Karl Shapiro - The Fly
 098. John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley - The Study of a Spider
 099. Rose Terry Cooke - Arachne
 100. Peter Redgrove - Being Beauteous

CORPSE-LOVE [2/4]
 089. John Keats - from Isabella
 090. Edgar Allan Poe - The Sleeper
 091. Cyril Tourneur - from The Atheist's Tragedy
 092. John Betjeman - Death in Leamington
 093. James Thomson - In the Room
 094. Walter Thornbury - Smith of Maudlin

CORPSE-LOVE [1/4]
 083. William Ernest Henley - Madam Life's a Piece in Bloom
 084. Robert Southwell - Upon the Image of Death
 085. Robert Lowell - France, from The Gibbet
 086. Cyril Tourneur - from The Revenger's Tragedy
 087. Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Wolfram's Song
 088. George Gordon, Lord Byron - Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull

WORLD-WEARINESS [4/4]
 076. James Shirley - Victorious Men of Earth
 077. Eugene Lee-Hamilton - By the Fire
 078. William Empson - Missing Dates
 079. Alexander Pope - from The Dunciad
 080. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - Upon Nothing
 081. Eugene Lee-Hamilton - Sea-shell Murmurs
 082. Alfred, Lord Tennyson - from The Vision of Sin

Wiki: "'Slip-shod waiter, lank and sour,
At the Dragon on the heath!
Let us have a quiet hour.
Let us hob-and-nob with Death."

WORLD-WEARINESS [3/4]
 069. Emily Brontë - A Death Scene
 070. David Gray - from In The Shadows
 071. Frances Cornford - The Watch
 072. Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Mariana
 073. William Julius Mickle - Cumnor Hall
 074. Anne Howard - Elegy
 075. Mary C. Gillington - A Dead March

Wiki: "... Woe was the houre - for never more
That haplesse countesse e'er was seene."

Word: "...To seek a primrose, whose pale shades
Must sicken - when those gaudes are bye?"

1. A trick, prank; a device to deceive, a piece of trickery, a pretence; a game, sport, or pastime. A jest, scoff; an object of mockery.

2. A plaything, toy. Something gaudy; a showy ornament, a piece of finery; a gewgaw.

3. Showy ceremonies, ‘pomps and vanities’; gaieties.

WORLD-WEARINESS [2/4]
 063. William Lathum - Dopo il giuoco, cosi va nel sacco il re, come il pedone
 064. Edgar Allan Poe - The Conqueror Worm
 065. David Gascoyne - from Night Thoughts
 066. Robert Blair - from The Grave
 067. James Clarence Mangan - Siberia
 068. Edgar Allan Poe - The City in the Sea

Wiki: "What few recopied blueprints we have are so old they’re brittle."

Blueprint > Whiteprint > Xerography

WORLD-WEARINESS [1/4]
 057. Christopher Marlowe - from Doctor Faustus
 058. David Gascoyne - A Wartime Dawn
 059. Oscar Wilde - from The Ballad of Reading Gaol
 060. Philip Hobsbaum - Timon Speaks to a Dog
 061. Robinson Jeffers - Cassandra
 062. Peter Porter - What a Lying Lot the Writers Are

Word: "Truly men hate the truth, they'd liefer
Meet a tiger on the road."

3. Dearly, gladly, willingly. Chiefly with would, past subjunctive (occasionally Scottish with omission of would). Also in as lief (as), the liefer; lief I were = I would gladly be.

VISIONS OF DOOM [3/3]
 052. Sebastian Evans - The Fifteen Days of Judgment
 053. Thomas Hood - The Sea of Death
 054. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - from The Ancient Mariner
 055. Alan Dugan - Memorial Service for the Invasion Beach Where the Vacation in the Flesh is Over
 056. George Crabbe - from Sir Eustace Grey

Wiki: "... As the heel of Judgment tramples
Cot and palace, castles, temples,
Hall and minster, thorp and city; —
All men too aghast for pity ..."

VISIONS OF DOOM [2/3]
 046. W.S. Gilbert - Nightmare
 047. Vincent O'Sullivan - Nights of Dreaming
 048. James Thomson - from The City of Dreadful Night
 049. Richard Watson Dixon - St Mary Magdalene
 050. Robert Southwell - The Burning Babe
 051. Richard Crashaw - Dies Irae, Dies Illa