William Michaelian

Poems, Notes, and Drawings

Ancient Mariner

I finished cleaning the library.

Once again, the internet has come to feel like an albatross around the neck of this ancient mariner.

The room measures about nineteen feet by twelve feet. The way the shelves are arranged, there are small rooms within the room, little private corners.

This laptop also feels like an albatross.

You’ve read Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, I hope, and seen the accompanying artwork by Gustave Doré.

That’s all.

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