“Just as you’ve destroyed your life, here in this / small corner, so you’ve wasted it through all the world.”
death returns to the sea
… is the other lyric running through my mind. I imagine it, am I imagining it?, sung, on the album September Songs, produced by Hal Willner, of Kurt Weill’s songs.
“Just as you’ve destroyed your life …” is C.P. Cavafy’s. (“In these dark