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Times are tough, but a little soul helps.
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Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finally—that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps it’s true that nothing matters more to us than that.Mark Doty, Still Life With Oysters and Lemon
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
told my love to wreck it all, cut out all the ropes and let me fall.
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Out Of The Arm Of One Love
out of the arm of one love
and into the arms of another
I have been saved from dying on the cross
by a lady who smokes pot
writes songs and stories
and is much kinder than the last,
much much kinder,
and the sex is just as good or better.
it isn’t pleasant to be put on the cross and left there,
it is much more pleasant to forget a love which didn’t
work
as all love
finally
doesn’t work…
it is much more pleasant to make love
along the shore in Del Mar
in room 42, and afterwards
sitting up in bed
drinking good wine, talking and touching
smoking
listening to the waves…
I have died too many times
believing and waiting, waiting
in a room
staring at a cracked ceiling
wating for the phone, a letter, a knock, a sound…
going wild inside
while she danced with strangers in nightclubs…
out of the arms of one love
and into the arms of another
it’s not pleasant to die on the cross,
it is much more pleasant to hear your name whispered in
the dark.
-Charles Bukowski
[Perhaps the only Bukowski poem I like?]
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![It’s getting cold, I’ve closed my windows and gotten out the warmer blankets. I already miss summer. [Thank you for the photo, LG.]](http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqw8uyBDq71qz7cjxo1_500.jpg)
It’s getting cold, I’ve closed my windows and gotten out the warmer blankets. I already miss summer. [Thank you for the photo, LG.]
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Chris Garneau - Black & Blue
[I wish I was smaller.]
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![Fall in Brooklyn and it is unclear whether I am moving towards or away from something. Soon I will find out which is harder: the act of making a mistake or humbling myself enough to admit it.[I do miss it so much sometimes though.]](http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqk4mclrYZ1qz7cjxo1_500.jpg)
Fall in Brooklyn and it is unclear
whether I am moving towards or away
from something.
Soon I will find out which is harder:
the act of making a mistake
or humbling myself enough to admit it.
[I do miss it so much sometimes though.]
