April is National Poetry Month! Jeff Dolven, "Rituals"

Swiped this one from The New Yorker. Jeff Dolven, "Rituals."

Washing your hands, trying the lock,
burning a hundred head of cattle
not to eat, washing your hands
again, trying the lock again,
talking forever to yourself,
saying the sorts of things the god
least can understand, who finally
figures this must be for me

The Borgias

Holy shit, how did anybody not tell me that somebody made one of those gorgeous-looking steamy historical dramas about the Borgias, the first season of which is now available to my non-cable-having self via Netflix? I am all over that shit like white on rice! Top o' the Netflix queue to you!

And yes, my Borgia-obsession is explicitly because of Cantarella.