Albert Holmes

“I once found a phoenix
charred in its own ashes. I
brought it home with
me, wept through the night,
and then tossed it to
the wind--its brittle body
dispersing all about.

This thing without
a name and deep within
me--how it truly believes
that if something is meant
to take flight, then it
must one way or another.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“These fragments I have shored against my ruins”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”
― Charles Bukowski