lucinda

“Sometimes—there's God—so quickly!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“1. Man is a MORAL animal.

2. You can get human beings to do anything — IF you convince them it is moral.

3. You can convince human beings anything is moral.”
― Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

“…Then, I said to myself:

'HISTORY IS HUMAN NATURE—;

TO SAY I AM GUILTY

IS TO ACCEPT IMPLICATION

IN THE HUMAN RACE. . .'

—Now, for months and months,
I have found

ANOTHER MAN in me—;

HE is NOT me—; I

am afraid of him …”
― Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

“Hold my hand in yours, and we will not fear what hands like ours can do.”
― Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh