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[amberdawnpullin.livejournal.com]

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

- John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

dark, and darker -Charles Bukowski

[inertiaxcreeps.livejournal.com]

if I can find one hour of peace a day
I can survive.
that's one old-fashioned hour, 60 minutes,
one hour, please, let me have it now, today,
this day, this night, which is almost over.
let me have that hour, something is closing
in, fast.

what a horror show it has been, to have been
put upon the earth for this, it's unreasonable,
it's beyond
reason.

a screeching doom.

it began so long ago.

"From tiny acorns..."

[amybelle1210.livejournal.com]

A little girl
standing on the rear bumper
gathering dust with the pad of her finger.

WASH ME

It's not original by any means,
but it's her first act
of vandalism,
and that's enough for me.



.....




if i were the last man on earth
the last woman on earth
would sit me down
and carefully explain
that it wasn't me
that she'd just been through
a really tough time
(relationship-wise)
and that she was scared
of being hurt again
this wouldn't necessarily mean
that she wasn't interested
in me per se
or even that she didn't like me
but merely that the spark
wasn't there
it would have nothing to do with me
it would just be something she
needed to work through by herself
and there would be no reason that
we couldn't become friends
very good friends
but ultimately just friends.
and I would look at her and say,
ok.


-Adam Ford