the pathos of 'in vain'

Geoffrey Stein


 The important thing to remember 
 about this is that everyone is wrong except for me. 


...the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced,
and lest this be taken for wry sorrow,
drown the spider in wine.

you are much more than simply dead:
I am a dish for your ashes...



Alina Vergnano



In the first case you are a man, 
in the second you're no better than a bird. 
Truth won't escape you, but life can be cramped. 






Erika Kuhn








minicingmockingbird




Rikka Sormunen








Vanessa Bell 

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2. line - Bukowsky
3. line - Dostoyevsky
4. line - Pilinszky