Smile, damn it !! Smile.

Smile, damn it !! Smile.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

What I want back is what I was
Before the bed, before the knife,
Before the brooch-pin and the salve
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What I want back is what I was
Before the bed, before the knife,
Before the brooch-pin and the salve
Fixed me in this parenthesis;
Horses fluent in the wind,
A place, a time gone out of mind.

I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
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I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.