Emerson

“You can fuck
anyone—but with whom can you sit
in water?”
― Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

“My life is quiet. There is little beside working and walking. I have no desire to see people, and I feel as though I am waiting for something new and strange which will burn the unburnt side of my soul.”
― Khalil Gibran

“I love like a leaky faucet or I love like a dam breaking. There is nothing in between.”
― Shinji Moon, The Anatomy of Being

“Whats the Use of a Title?"

They don’t make it
the beautiful die in flame—
suicide pills, rat poison, rope what—
ever...
they rip their arms off,
throw themselves out of windows,
they pull their eyes out of the sockets,
reject love
reject hate
reject, reject.

they don’t make it
the beautiful can’t endure,
they are butterflies
they are doves
they are sparrows,
they don’t make it.

one tall shot of flame
while the old men play checkers in the park
one flame, one good flame
while the old men play checkers in the park
in the sun.

the beautiful are found in the edge of a room
crumpled into spiders and needles and silence
and we can never understand why they
left, they were so
beautiful.

they don’t make it,
the beautiful die young
and leave the ugly to their ugly lives.

lovely and brilliant: life and suicide and death
as the old men play checkers in the sun
in the park.”
― Charles Bukowski, Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame