“Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world's greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding”
― , said the shotgun to the head.
― , said the shotgun to the head.
“A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.”
― The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
― The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
“she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun”
― , said the shotgun to the head.
― , said the shotgun to the head.
“I surrendered my beliefs
and found myself at the tree of life
injecting my story into the veins of leaves
only to find that stories like forests
are subject to seasons”
― , said the shotgun to the head.
and found myself at the tree of life
injecting my story into the veins of leaves
only to find that stories like forests
are subject to seasons”
― , said the shotgun to the head.
“When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle
atop some crumbling building,
spring to life
a resuscitated
angel.”
― , said the shotgun to the head.
atop some crumbling building,
spring to life
a resuscitated
angel.”
― , said the shotgun to the head.
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