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❝ Tonight a falcon walked in, and my heart sank inside me. ❞

Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Ooh I promise not to do it again
I promise not to do it

I said it the last time
But this is the last time

When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible. Jonathan Safran Foer

I almost went to bed
without remembering
the four white violets
I put in the button-hole
of your green sweater
and how I kissed you then
and you kissed me
shy as though I’d
never been your lover.

Leonard Cohen

Except from The River Merchant's Wife ; A Letter -

"At fifteen I stopped scowling,

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours

Forever and forever and forever.

Why should I climb the lookout?"

Ezra Pound

“I dreamed
that my death was white.
The gate of Hell, too, is white.”
- Tian Yuan

I almost went to bed
without remembering
the four white violets
I put in the button-hole
of your green sweater
and how I kissed you then
and you kissed me
shy as though I’d
never been your lover.
Leonard Cohen

"…recite the list
of what you’ve learned to do without.
It is stronger than prayer."
Stephen Dunn, Travelin

Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Attributed to Martin Luther

Why should the Devil get all the good tunes,

The booze and the neon and Saturday night,

The swaying in darkness, the lovers like spoons?

Why should the Devil get all the good tunes?

Does he hum them to while away sad afternoons

And the long, lonesome Sundays? Or sing them for spite?

Why should the Devil get all the good tunes,

The booze and the neon and Saturday night?

-A.E. Stallings

TITTTE

I want.

this little guy wouldn't eat five kittens!

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