"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Sunday, October 25, 2015

Some Things Should Not Be Forgotten


"I remember how seeing the shape of your mouth
that first time, I kept staring until my blood turned to rain.
Some things take root in the brain and just don’t let go."
~ T.S. Elliot, Slow Dance




While kissing her 
He was thinking of how to leave 
To flee the corpus delicti of expectation
Once he wanted to stay
With her
(any her)
To stop the pain
To bring the sleep
He remembers what Catherine once told him
“I would kiss you now if I thought it would help…”
She knew the truth
Metaphors are real
A kiss doesn’t bring life back
Only love does
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