There is something quite dreamy and frightening about consuming oneself. I call it unspoken tenderness.

Takuboku Ishikawa, from “Romaji Diary & Sad Toys,” published c. 1985

Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, NYC, 1968. photographed by Ken Regan

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my jo
For auld lang syne
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne

And surely ye’ll be your pint-stowp!
And surely I’ll be mine!
And we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne.

David Davies, Moonrise, 1893

Liu Wen by Matt Irwin, QG February 2012

Cover of Pan magazine by Joseph Sattler (1895)

Theo van Doesburg (r) and Cornelis van Eesteren (l) in their studio in Paris, 1923