A thing of beauty

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness;

- John Keats

For Jane

when you left
you took almost
everything.
I kneel in the nights
before tigers
that will not let me be.

what you were
will not happen again.
the tigers have found me
and I do not care.

- Charles Bukowski

Persecuted

Man some people really, really, really want to be a persecuted minority but without all that being persecuted or being a minority stuff.

- The Whelk at 11:34 AM on August 2

It takes so many years

It takes so many years
To learn that one is dead
So you must help me. I will go.

- T.S. Eliot