“A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.”
“Assuming that our energies are sufficient, love is interminable.”
“The three things you can’t fake are erections, competence, and creativity.”
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
In life there are great loves and great mistakes. How many of us have confused one for the other?
Work, love, build a house, and die. But build a house.
But happiness is not so easy to find, is it? It is very difficult to find. It is like money. It comes only once. If you are lucky, it comes once, and the worst part is there is nothing you can do. You can hope, you can search, anger, prayers. Nothing. How frightening to be without it, to wait for happiness, to be patient, to be ready, to have your face upturned and luminous like girls at communion.
Yes, you are saying to yourself, me, me, I am ready. And nothing happens. It happens to all the others. Yes, you think, it will happen to me. And every year you have more to give, nothing is spent, nothing is taken away, you are richer, you are laden, and every year the same: nothing.
Until finally there are almost no others, you are left alone like one flower in a great meadow, and it is autumn, yes, the days are growing shorter, the grass bends beneath the wind. And the sun comes and shines on you still, alone in that great field, the last flower, beautiful, yes, because of that, and there you are in the long, endless afternoons, waiting, waiting
“I’m 61 years old, which is too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.”
“Velcro Being Pulled Apart”
Would you have guessed it?
[Currently listening to: The Best of the Current: Electric Cars and Cuba's Oil & Gas from the album "CBC's The Best of The Current" by CBC's The Best of The Current]
Went to get some milk this morning and at 9:30 in the morning people were already crowding around the entrance to the liquor store….
Either I am living in a very party crazy part of town or a lot of alcoholics….. I think it’s the latter.
