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Writing poetry is a state of free float

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So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to ...more

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UPYou wake up filled with dread.There seems no reason for it.Morning light sifts through the window,there is birdsong,you can't get out of bed.It's so...more

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And then she began to cry, and when I asked her why she was doing that, she said it was because I was to have a happy ending, and it was just like a b...more

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Potential has a shelf life.

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Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I’m in better shape than they are.

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By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I - unused to your ways though I ...more

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Life is warped. I'm just in sync.

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In the end, we'll all become stories

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You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back.

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But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and ...more

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Every war is the war for whoever's lived through it.

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I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

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Don't let the bastards grind you down.

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A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.