"Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used to tell me, ‘If I know a man’s sound, I know the man.’ Do you hear the melody playing in your mind? Does it move you, nudge you off your seat?"
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"Dull Poetry Dulls the Mind [10w] Poetry penetrates dullness when whetted on the stone of imagination."
"Talking to Myself I used to talk to myself until myself criticized myself.Now I'm giving myself the silent treatment."
""If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose."
"Poetry vs. Prose [10w] Prose is the bread of imagination;poetry is the wine."
"We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends."
"Pizza vs. Internet Porn I'm still debating whether pizza or internet porn is the best thing ever invented.I've already jack-off three times while eating a double-cheese pepperoni piemaking my careful deliberations."
"Some Semblance of Such "To lose one's identity to a Doppelgänger may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose multiple identities speaks of Nabakov."
"In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer the experience from the comfort of their armchairs. - Quote from Her Past's Present."
"Minus One [10w] We more people we fuckthe more lonely we become."
"Invisible Attraction What's invisible to the eye is that as you move towards love,love moves towards you."
"Poetry Site vs. Social Networking Site [10w] Hello Poetry is whatever you want Hello Poetry to be."
"Make It Happen!!! [10w] Don't wait for someone to fall in love with you."
"Break All the Rules of Poetry Place no limits on your poetry.Live a little.Break all the fucking rules!If it comes deep from the wellsprings of your imagination,the woolgathering of dreamers ~it is poetry ~no matter what anyone says."
"Tennessee State Motto Agriculture and Commerce.Where the KKK was bornand the most popular pick up line is, 'Nice tooth!"
"Say No to Drugs Commercials The image of an egg sizzling in a frying pan is not your brain on drugs.It's just a fucking omelet."
"My Brooklyn Childhood [10w] "Motherfucker! I gotta put more goddamn change in the swear-jar."
"Infinite Promise The carrot of infinite promise always dangles just inches beyond our noses.The trick is to surreptitiously switch that carrot for a zucchini."
"Time Time waits for no man ~but for hot women Time makes exceptions."
"Love in the Afterlife [10w] Maybe I'll love you in the afterlife.This life, fuhgeddaboudit."