Veronica

“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“each man must realize
that it can all disappear very
quickly:
the cat, the woman, the job,
the front tire,
the bed, the walls, the
room; all our necessities
including love,
rest on foundations of sand —
and any given cause,
no matter how unrelated:
the death of a boy in Hong Kong
or a blizzard in Omaha . . .
can serve as your undoing.
all your chinaware crashing to the
kitchen floor, your girl will enter
and you'll be standing, drunk,
in the center of it and she'll ask:
my god, what's the matter?
and you'll answer: I don't know,
I don't know . . .

— PULL A STRING, A PUPPET MOVES . . .”
― Charles Bukowski, Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame