August 2008
“What if you were to see your every action and inaction in this life so far, dear...”
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
– H. G. Wells
yes i am the reason and monday
blinks back hard at
my stare, my stomach teaches
me new lessons in lessening
stolen bird songs eat their way
inside my darkened skin
no one dares ask these questions
again
so i sestina squirm like a firepit
doused and coal smoke ash
becomes a nest for proud moments
jumbled in with all the rest
this thunderstorm warning
became my blanket, my eyes
...
“It isn’t the mountains to climb that wear you out, it’s the pebble in your shoe.”
– Muhammad Ali (via rulesformyunbornson)
“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
“in order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”
– coco chanel (via sarazucker)
“I have paraded as a poet for years now. In the process of parading I may have...”
– Saul Williams
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a...”
– W. Beran Wolfe
