betsan :)

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“Insomniac's Lullaby

It is 3.13am and in milk-tooth slices
the moon pokes through blinds
and dapples my teenage bedroom alabaster
white, cotton ichor of a godless sky
planting silk-soft kisses on
half-chewed fingertips -

and if this is what they mean
by purgatory, please
tell my mum

I'm alright.”
― Dakota Warren