January 2010
3 posts
Moderation Is Not a Negation of Intensity, But...
antpants:
Will you stop for a while, stop trying to pull yourself together for some clear “meaning” - some momentary summary? No on can have poetry or dances, prayer or climaxes all day; The ordinary blankness of little dramatic consciousness is good for the health sometimes, only Dostoevsky can be Dostoevskian at such long tumultuous stretches; Look what that intensity did to poor great Van...
the bluebird (by Charles Bukowski)
antpants:
there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him. I say “stay in there. I’m not going to let anybody see you”
there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I poor whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he’s in there
there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out...
