Timothy Morrison

“Stop complaining. Get busy doing what you can do.”
― Germany Kent

“It was like the first spasm of a well-remembered pain warning a man who had thought he was cured that his family have deceived him and he is dying after all.”
― C.S. Lewis

“In the dreaming man's dream, the dreamed man awoke.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins

“Because you took advantage of a sinner
because you took advantage
because you took
because you took advantage of my disadvantage
when I stood Adam-naked
before a federal law and all its stinging stars

Because you took advantage of a sin
when I was helpless moultng moist and tender
hoping for the best
dreaming of marriage in a mountain state
aye of a litter of Lolitas

Because you took advantage of my inner
essential innocence
because you cheated me--

Because you cheated me of my redemption
because you took
her at the age when lads
play with erector sets
a little downy girl still wearing poppies
still eating popcorn in the colored gloam
where tawny Indians took paid croppers
because you stole her
from her wax-browed and dignified protector
spitting into his heavy-lidded eye
ripping his flavid toga and at dawn
leaving the hog to roll upon his new discomfort
the awfulness of love and violets
remorse despair while you
took a dull doll to pieces
and threw its head away
because of all you did
because of all I did not
you have to die”
― NABOKOV, Lolita