I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.

Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
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I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round as the moon, to stare up.
I want to be looking at them when they come
Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.
Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.
They will wonder if I was important.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.

In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.