You & I, the moneyed, the privileged, the fortunate, shall not fare so badly in this world, provided our luck holds. What of it if our consciences itch? Why undermine the dominance of our race, our gu...
This druid feeling I get in the woods’s so thrilling it makes me want to crap, so I dug a hole with a flat stone inside a clump of mitten-leafed shrubs. I pulled down my cacks and squatted. It’s ace s...
We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
Then the three of us hug, and if I could choose on moment of my life to sit inside of for the rest of eternity...it'd be now, no question.
Valleysmen’d not want to hear, she answered, that human hunger birthed the Civ’lize, but human hunger killed it too. I know it from other tribes offland what I stayed with. Times are you say a person’...
Nowadays not even the villains smoke. Now smoking really is an expression of the rebel spirit—it’s virtually sodding illegal! Yet what are we without our addictions? Insipid. Flavorless.
People pontificate, Suicide is selfishness. Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade finge...
To my hens, I'm a two-legged giant who throws them corn and keeps stealing their eggs.
If you don’t want the fish, why do you catch them? A few seconds pass. For the quality of the conversation.
Sitting under the candlenut tree in the courtyard is pleasant in the afternoon. Laced in shadows, frangipani & coral hibiscus ward away the memory of recent evil. The sisters go about their duties, Si...
Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines.
La risa es una blasfemia anárquica. Los tiranos hacen bien en temerla.
Well, Hae-Joo probed, what did I do to relax? I play Go against my sony, I said.To relax? he responded, incredulous. Who wins, you or the sony?The sony, I answered, or how would I ever improve?So winn...
Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.
If you’ve not been through it, you can’t understand, not really. Lucky you, I say. Control is about fear, see. If you’re afraid enough of the reprisals, you don’t say no, you don’t fight back, you don...
When I was a young man, and the Russkies were going to blow us all to Kingdom Come, we were told we’d have a four-minute warning. I’m talking Ford, Carter, Reagan Days. Four minutes, I used to wonder...
Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. Is this the doom written within our nature? If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth & claw, i...
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
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