beyond recall

he looked up from his glass of wine under the stars and cathedral spires his eyes got murkier by the minute with remorse and vibrating nerves he was gone beyond recall under the stars and gathering clouds we prefer to save our exciting moments she had hated summer vacations when the doors were painted brown countless swarms of wasps began polishing the inside doorhandle "how could you let him escape?" he was gone beyond recall on the other side of the thin wall with his pathetic remorse and shot nerves he looked down into his glass of wine supported by tiger-like monsters with polished golden incisors countless swarms of wasps began attacking his unfinished glass of wine splashing the tiger-like monsters it was worse than the summer vacations with the endless swarms of grasshoppers no way of knowing what they wanted the tiger-men began to laugh at the immumerable swarms of spiders that were polishing the inside door handle sources: salambo, by gustave flaubert; maldoror, by lautreamont; last men in london, by olaf stapledon; baudelaire, by jean-paul sartre; thirst for love, by yukio mishima; don't look now, by daphne du maurier; rebecca, by daphne du maurier; the engagement, by georges simenon; act of passion, by georges simenon; agent of chaos, by norman spinrad; driven, by richard gehman; man on a leash, by charles williams; "fire escape" by cornell woolrich