Stabbed Adonais

“He gave man speech, and speech created thought, which is the measure of the universe.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound

“Doc was into his own apprenticeship as a skip tracer, and each, gradually locating a different karmic thermal above the megalopolis, had watched the other glide away into a different fate.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice

“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound

“To a Depressed Friend

Sometimes, to make sure
You're still here,
Look up for cloud sustenance.

Be sure they are
Different from yesterday,
From an hour ago,

From when you were 15
And sky didn't matter
Because only pretty girls did.

Note how cumulus
Will be looking down
And naming what

Kind of human you're
Shaped like: mailman,
Archaeologist, student of rain.

On clear nights, rely on starlight.
Pentacles. Pulses.
Further proof of existence.”
― Ken Craft, Reincarnation & Other Stimulants: Life, Death, & In-Between Poems