Ike

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
― Sophocles

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.

people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.

people just are not good to each other
one on one.

the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.

we are afraid.

our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.

it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.

or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone

untouched
unspoken to

watering a plant.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell