for Dani Diendorf
I was thinking as I listened to her
about Byron’s relentless nihilism,
that only found out in intoxication
any kind of remedy for the things
she was telling me about abortions,
forced entries, deaths, and how no I won’t go
home with you, and how Byron
alone among the Romantics dealt
overtly with sex, not just love like
Shelley or fantasy like Keats or Nature
like Wordsworth the dull sheep,
and all the blokes in the bar were
staring at her— green eyes, red hair,
bust, you know the kind that blokes
will stare at, and I thought Byron
really caught something a seed,
a kernel of what Nietzsche ran away
with (recurrence!), so I said please run
away with me and she laughed, looked down
into her beer and was finished—
© Adam Fieled 2009-2025
Run Away With Me was originally published as Sex and Nihilism in Otoliths 13 in 2009.
about Byron’s relentless nihilism,
that only found out in intoxication
any kind of remedy for the things
she was telling me about abortions,
forced entries, deaths, and how no I won’t go
home with you, and how Byron
alone among the Romantics dealt
overtly with sex, not just love like
Shelley or fantasy like Keats or Nature
like Wordsworth the dull sheep,
and all the blokes in the bar were
staring at her— green eyes, red hair,
bust, you know the kind that blokes
will stare at, and I thought Byron
really caught something a seed,
a kernel of what Nietzsche ran away
with (recurrence!), so I said please run
away with me and she laughed, looked down
into her beer and was finished—
© Adam Fieled 2009-2025
Run Away With Me was originally published as Sex and Nihilism in Otoliths 13 in 2009.
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