Monday, 14 August 2017

Lest We Should See


Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day
The lights must never go out
The music must always play
All the conventions conspire
To make this fort assume
The furniture of home ;
Lest we should see where we are
Lost in a haunted wood
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good

WH Auden
from "September 1st 1939"
1940

image
Vivian Maier

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