A Decision Re: Zurich
by Ethan Vilu
Voices spoke to me while I haunted Eliot’s bookshop on Yonge street in Toronto, Ontario Zurich Insurance pulled me in manifold directions separating my limbs from my frame Company I was trying to be more of a writer - a friend of mine (who himself was trying to be more of a musician, or something to that effect) had spoken to me of ruminating on - well illustrated park benches and wearing scarves in the city wind. corporate history. Who knew what the years ahead of us held. I remember walking around the canals and sideways of Amsterdam, placing a bouquet of warm autumn flowers at the triangular monument to those This queer folks murdered and tortured. book is extra I remember acting like a ghost in a bookstore in The Hague. There was (and is, seemingly) a despicable heavy, and may history to everything. Back to Eliot’s though, I was on the third floor among black wooden boards and dividers involve extra reading In The Beauty of The Lilies or something, generally directionless. I can’t focus on that moment of the past without reeling in to the present and future. shipping charges who knew how many books I’d end up buying and planning to buy to some - for some reason neither myself nor anyone else saw this coming. I knew (I know) where every book is on the shelf, and where I got them countries I’ve been to bookstores in Amsterdam and Edmonton that felt like dungeons.
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Voices still speak to me now as I walk uncertainly through the downtown west side.
Title: Inspired By Tomorrow. Zurich - 125 Years…
I dream of haunting the archives and bookstores of Zurich, Switzerland.
Publisher: Zurich Insurance Company, Zurich
Assembling a regal collection of the records and ruminations of post-modern empire.
Publication Date: 1998
I can’t believe it’s been a quarter of a century already.
Binding: Hardcover
How far I’ve come, and how far I theoretically still have to go, if I choose.
Book Condition: Fine
My brain is wracked, I am on perpetual thin ice.
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
I am haunted by the noises from upstairs, thinking perhaps that my father has fallen over
Edition: First Edition
for the last time. I am uncertain that any of this is real.
Book Type: Book
I contemplate the space between Toronto and scenic Zurich.
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Ethan Vilu
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A Decision Re: Zurich by Ethan Vilu is a Blasted Tree original poem
Edition of 50 longsheets published in Canada