#death

"Rhyme vs. Reason {Couplet} Do not try to make rhyme of reason,nor reason of rhyme;For the former's too systematic,the latter's too sublime."

"Ethan was loyal and funny and protective. When we were little, he was the brother most likely to make me cry—and mostly likely to wipe away my tears."

"I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die."

"Prickly Pears [10w] Men are often like cactus fruits ~thorny outside,mushy inside."

"People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die."

"The 2-Step Self-Discovery Program The first step in self-discovery is not giving a shit what anybody else thinks.The second step is knowing you're a self-centered asshole."

"Love vs. the Three Headed Dragon In relationships, the corrosive venom of the three-headed dragon areindifference, fault-finding and 'take-each-other-for-grantedness'.Only these cantarnish the shining armor of amour."

"I loved my mother too,' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does."

"I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars."

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."

"Full fathom five thy father lies;Of his bones are coral made;Those are pearls that were his eyes:Nothing of him that doth fade,But doth suffer a sea-changeInto something rich and strange.Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell."

"Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong."

"Seafood My body's just a shell,the world is my oyster ~and I'm getting a whale of appetiteright now for some delicious seafood ."

"The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is."

"Mind's Eye What vain man is not a hero in his mind's eye;What egoist not the protagonist upon which the world revolves?"

"Ethical Dilemma of an Ascending Body [10w] + [10w] You can't ascend a ladderwithout rungs to push back;you can't climb a staircasewithout stairs to step on."

"Opportunities Come a Knockin' [10w] Never miss the opportunity to fuck or write poetry."

"I see black light (his last words)"

"Poetry Trek: 'To Boldly Go Where No man Has Gone Before' A poet must get into spaceship every dayand launch himself into metaphorical space."

"My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself."