04-04-2026, 02:08 AM
It's a nice nod to Eliot. I revisited the first section of The Waste Land to do a slight comparison, respecting the lightheartedness of this piece. The Burial of the Dead seems very mired in its time post-WWI. I thought there was a somewhat missed opportunity to echo the spirit that that piece was written in, with SWANA tensions, disillusionment in the US via Epstein files and the redactions implicating world leaders and ceos, AI and warfare in the time of AI, etc etc. But I sense that that is probably a poem you didn't want to write.