Cantos for Lemuel Gulliver by TinyPissyFairy

I thought it looked silly having this slab of text hanging over everything every time you read a part, so I'm giving it it's own chapter.

The title and the tone are clumsy tributes to Cantos for James Michener by David Berman, which can be found in his sole book of poetry, Actual Air, which can be found here: https://www.dragcity.com/products/actual-air. It can also be found in The Baffler, the magazine where it was originally published, here: https://thebaffler.com/poems/from-cantos-for-james-michener.

I started out writing this as pure homage. As I wrote more, the unnamed narrator/explorer took on more and more of the role of self-insert. In LXVII, the transformation is complete, and it became part of a larger work (including music) that I've been making since 2018, one which tries to make sense of my world, the worlds of my friends and loved ones, and the world in general since the events of August 11-13, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. As such, as they say, shit gets real, and while this is on the one hand escapism and wish fulfillment, on the other hand it very much isn't.

However you feel about what I have written, please read Berman's Cantos, and anything you can find by him, including the lyrics he wrote for his band, The Silver Jews / Purple Mountains.

A note about tags and rating: the vast majority of this is gentle, and the tags are not meant to apply to every chapter. If there is any violence, it is giant-on-giant, so to speak. I am still writing these, so this may change. The chapter tags will be more precise.