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Women
"I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the dresser; the way they said, “I’m going to pee…”; hair ribbons; walking down the boulevard with them at 1:30 in the afternoon, just two people walking together; the long night of drinking and smoking, talking; the arguments; thinking of suicide; ( Read more... ) -
at age nineteen
... at age nineteen when all of us reach our zenith of idealistic nonsense. Nineteen is the age of a perfect foot soldier, who will die without a murmur, his heart aflame with patriotism. Nineteen is the age at which the brain of a nascent poet in his rented room soars the highest, suffering gladly the assault of what he thinks is the god in him. ( Read more... )
