Adam

“Don't ever fist fight a guy when you've got on roller skates.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Happy Birthday, Wanda June

“Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald Reagan might've been the beginning of my giving up on my species. Because it was absurd. To this day it remains absurd. More than absurd, it was frightening: it represented the rise to supremacy of darkness, the ascendancy of ignorance.”
― George Carlin, Last Words

“[...] How is it / I have come to take carrion comfort looking out over all resting / in the little churchyard next door? No matter. With this dark / nourishment, / imagination, my only god, lifts, takes wings.”
― Kathleen Driskell, Next Door to the Dead: Poems

“We were running on borrowed time, but we didn't know just how borrowed it was, those free and wild days. The whole blessed country came to be paved over, and how I wish we were short on concrete instead of oil. There's shopping malls in the pinewoods, houses in the tomato fields, and our lonesome two-lane blacktops are all six lanes plugged tight with traffic. Hurricanes, earthquakes, wars, plagues, and pirates for three hundred years, but it always came back. And then in thirty years it was gone, paved over and gone. But we did not know all that when we were sitting there in the shade of those courthouse oaks, trying to wish up money.”
― Roger Pinckney, The Mullet Manifesto