Suzanne Knop

“Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.”
― Henrik Ibsen

“The real me lives in words, not in what words mean.”
― Anne Sexton

“Tuesday

I have invented a lie.
There is no other day but Monday.
It seemed reasonable to pretend
that I could change the day
like a pair of socks.
To tell the truth
days are all the same size
and words aren't much company.
If I were sick, I'd be a child,
tucked in under the woolens, sipping my broth.
As it is,
the days are not worth grabbing or lying about.
Nevertheless, you are the only one
that I can bother with this matter.

Monday

It would be pleasant to be drunk:
faithless to my tongue and hands,
giving up the boundaries
for the heroic gin.
Dead drunk
is the term I think of,
insensible,
neither cool nor warm,
without a head or foot.
To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.
I will try it shortly.”
― Anne Sexton, All My Pretty Ones

“For gypsies do not like to stay -
They only come to go away.”
― Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline and the Gypsies