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(Untitled)
"It is not so much that I miss you
as the remembering
which I suppose is a form of missing
except more positive,
like the time of the blackout
when fear was my first response
followed by love of the dark." -
i will learn how to love a person and then i will teach you and then we will know.
seen from a great enough distance i cannot be seen
i feel this as an extremely distinct sensation
of feeling like shit; the effect of small children
is that they use declarative sentences and then look at your face
with an expression that says, ‘you will never do enough
for the people you love’; i can feel the universe expanding
and it feels like no one ( Read more... ) -
(cause and effect)
"the best often die by their own hand
just to get away,
and those left behind
can never quite understand
why anybody
would ever want to
get away
from
them"
-Charles Bukowski -
(textbook statistics)
On average, 5 people are born every second and 1.78 die.
So we’re ahead by 3.22, which is good, I think.
The average person will spend two weeks in his life waiting for the traffic light to change.
Pubescent girls wait two to four years for the tender lumps under their nipples to grow.
So the average adult has over 1,460 dreams a year, laughs 15 times ( Read more... ) -
I don't own an exquisite way to move around in the night.
It occurs to me that,
when I die,
they might find the necklace
I dropped behind the bed
and wonder
how long it was there,
and whether I’d missed it.
But will they care
about my favorite color,
my long-range plans,
or my habit of searching myself
for signs of rust?
