This game is amazing! “Uncertain of his sister’s fate, a boy enters Limbo.” http://limbogame.org
"In an algebra of lyricism
Which I am still deciphering"
Which I am still deciphering"
— L. Ferlinghetti, Pictures of the Gone World
"In a lightning bolt
of memory,
I see our statue of Buddha
(a wedding gift from Uncle Gene)
which always sat
on top of the speaker cabinet.
When a visitor asked,
“So, does Buddha like jazz?”
you said, “I hope so.
He’s been getting it up the ass
for a long time."
of memory,
I see our statue of Buddha
(a wedding gift from Uncle Gene)
which always sat
on top of the speaker cabinet.
When a visitor asked,
“So, does Buddha like jazz?”
you said, “I hope so.
He’s been getting it up the ass
for a long time."
— D. Grossman, Love Poem
"How can I
sleep when my beloved’s
in bed with me
how when he’s absent?
For me the two
sleeps are annihilated
lost this
way or that"
sleep when my beloved’s
in bed with me
how when he’s absent?
For me the two
sleeps are annihilated
lost this
way or that"
— Hemachandra’s Grammar 418.1
I miss I miss I miss.
late-night reading while the upstairs neighbor practices his guitar
Michael Laskey: Do you have a favorite collection?
Sharon Olds: I remember, though it’s so long ago, once I finished The Father, I thought, “I won’t be so scared to die in a plane crash now.” That was something I was meant to do.
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Is it primarily the fear of the unfinished, the unfulfilled, that is so terrifying about untimely, violent death? That sense of having lost something that should have been but never was?
(Source: poets.org)
