Mid-Week Libation (6.1.22)

Our Curated Splash of Inspiration and Culture

You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it. - James Baldwin https://www.azquotes.com/quote/380093

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Wildstar’s Wednesday Wine Pick: Kir-Yianni 'Cuvee Villages' Xinomavro (Naoussa, Greece)

Purchase from Wine-Searcher

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Another R&R Playlist for your listening pleasure:

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The Art of Wayne Puqiqnak

epicureanvagabonds @epicureanryans

9" Shaman Seeking Truth by Wayne Puqiqnak Gjoa Haven inuitsculptures.com/products/9-dru…

Wayne Puqiqnak at Inuit Sculptures.com

Wayne Puqiqnak at the Brousseau Inuit Art Gallery

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Apology of Genius
by Mina Loy

Ostracized as we are with God—
         The watchers of the civilized wastes
         reverse their signals on our track
         
         Lepers of the moon 
         all magically diseased
         we come among you
         innocent
         of our luminous sores
         
         unknowing
         how perturbing lights
         our spirit
         on the passion of Man
         until you turn on us your smooth fool’s faces
         like buttocks bared in aboriginal mockeries
         
         We are the sacerdotal clowns
         who feed upon the wind and stars
         and pulverous pastures of poverty
         
         Our wills are formed 
         by curious disciplines
         beyond your laws
         
         You may give birth to us
         or marry us
         the chances of your flesh
         are not our destiny—

         The cuirass of the soul
         still shines—
         And we are unaware
         if you confuse
         such brief
         corrosion with possession

         In the raw caverns of the Increate
         we forge the dusk of Chaos
         to that imperious jewellery of the Universe
                —the Beautiful—
         
         While to your eyes
                   A delicate crop
         of criminal mystic immortelles
         stands to the censor’s scythe.

***Listen to Ryan Wildstar singing Mina Loy’s “Apology of Genius” (from his album A City of Brittle Stars) here:

[Purchase Ryan Wildstar’s A City of Brittle Stars here.]

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Drag Performance of the Week: Pangina Heals on Lip Synch Battle Thailand

Pangina Heals on Instagram

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Happy Wednesday everyone! What are you loving this Wednesday?