{"id":10930,"date":"2014-06-17T02:22:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T23:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=10930"},"modified":"2014-06-17T02:22:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T23:22:43","slug":"if-lovecraft-had-become-a-modernist-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/06\/17\/if-lovecraft-had-become-a-modernist-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"If Lovecraft had become a modernist poet…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Call of Cthulhu<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some men found
\nnew treasuries of data
\nreceived with suspense and astonishment
\njust before the stars were right
\noh they worshipped
\nso
\nthey
\nsaid<\/em>—— <\/p>\n

the precise words
\nspoken in the night
\nso
\nthey
\nsaid<\/em>——
\nand then all dreamed
\nphantasies
\nstanding evoking spirits
\natop the mountains of China
\n—— each so so<\/em> convinced
\nthat his correspondence was corroboration
\nof what he imagined<\/p>\n

Professors whooo-boy!<\/em> they dun jived at those
\nvoodoo meetings
\nyass sairr!<\/em>
\nhad their heads so full of waterfront rum
\nyass sairr!<\/em>
\nthey never questioned
\nthem terrifying vistas
\nwhile horrors that none
\nof them had ever seen
\n——outsiders——
\ntook advantage of the convocation
\nto offer blasphemous questions
\nfor correct answerings
\nyass sairr!<\/em>
\nthose outsiders they bore out
\nthe queer and the poets
\nwhen the pertinent answers
\ncame——<\/p>\n

So convinced
\nsome still remained
\nso<\/em> fascinated
\nand in their future years
\neven the Great
\ncould not induce them to speak
\nfor they feared sinister ears
\n——only mumbled in vague suggestions <\/p>\n

Professor! —
\nthis manuscript
\nplaces caution before audacity
\nthe trees were thinner
\nthese stars are wrong
\nthe brooding voodoo —— not proven!<\/p>\n

through the winter of the human mind
\nsomething moved sensitive among them
\nseeking hints
\nof morbid habitation
\nthen in one nauseous rout
\nsucceeded in tracing
\nthe first to be approached<\/p>\n

The man on the Newburyport boat
\nhe knew
\nenough to keep away <\/p>\n

so outer powers did not find the key
\n—— just found a very old man
\nwith a dream he had never spoken
\nbut he remembered
\na morbid and long lost statue
\nwhose origin was the sea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Call of Cthulhu Some men found new treasuries of data received with suspense and astonishment just before the stars …<\/p>\n

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