a vast obelisk of ice

From: Glen Blazosky <reels@nikoil.az>
Date: Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:29 PM
Subject: beauty, wedded t
To: Ferne

Eir summits airy capes and headlands, or assume upon their crowns a
wide, smooth table, as if for the service of genii. Ships sail, bergs
float, in the heavens. Here a vast obelisk of ice shoots aloft, half
mountain high; you gaze at it amazed, ecstatic,–calculating the time
it will take to come up with it,–whistling, if you are still capable
of that levity, for a

Dearest Glen,

Your poetry moves me like no other. Not since the late, great Samuel Taylor Coleridge have I read such imagery. And like one of his most infamous works, “Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment,” I feel like your masterwork was cut short by an interruption. Was it an email from a Nigerian Prince? Was it a sublime cat video of greater depth than we’ll ever realize? No matter the reason, I mourn for the world’s loss. However, I do have a job opportunity in mind for you — you can earn thousands of Australian dollars a week working from home! If you are interested in this position, please write me post haste.

kind regards,
Ruprecht the Monkey Boy