May 19, 2012

This place is trying to break my belief

If I could feel You shine your perpetual light
Then maybe I could crawl out of this tonight

May 10, 2012

Gregor

Those had been happy times and they had never returned, at least not with the same brilliance, even though Gregor later earned enough to meet the expenses of the entire family and did so.  They had simply grown used to it, both the family and Gregor; the money was gratefully accepted and gladly given but it no longer brought any particular warmth.

 - Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

May 1, 2012

What's as high as an elephant's eye?

you're not allowed to tamper with the Hand of Fate

April 30, 2012

Miss Ohio

said I want to do right but not right now

April 27, 2012

Was he a beast if music could move him so?

it’s not the way I planned…

PS "All he wanted to do now was to get up quietly and undisturbed, get dressed, and, most important, eat breakfast, and only then consider what to do next, because, as he was well aware, in bed he could never think anything through to a reasonable conclusion."

 - Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

April 22, 2012

dreams

red wine and rocking chairs
full moon greets empty stares
a lonely man with lonely dreams

white wine and porch step perch
ghostly pallor paper birch
a silent man with silent thoughts