Lust & Hunger
drive my acquisitions, steer my aims

I'm hungry for scholary literature,
and have a burning lust
for Paul Saenger's
”Space Between Words: The Origin of Silent Reading”
(Stanfords University Press)
and ”The Art of Memory” by Francis Yeats
(The Bodley Head)

I feel an irresistible lust
for the countless alien civilizations
of the Universe,
and hunger for the familiar ski tracks
of today's pending hike

Yes, I have a great lust for the warm motion
of my muscles,
in relentless daily exercises,
and hunger for the consequent rest
and its soothing gravity

I have a lust for beautiful truths
cut in stone,
and an aching hunger
for the Nietzschean revaluation of all values