Never apologize, never explain, and keep ‘em guessing.
Photo by Jane Evelyn Atwood: Woods Hole, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1983
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happy birthday
Life is holy, and the journey is Now. Say it with a Bop beat.
Kerouac’s Sound
Collected in A Casebook on the Beat (1961)
Illustration by Henri Matisse: The Circus, from Jazz (1941-43)
For @Ratrage
Guts
Ask not how this day will end.
It is enough that it will end.
Paraphrase from William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1599)
Screen capture from the Coen Brothers‘ A Serious Man (2009)
happy birthday
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
The Diary of Anais Nin, Volume Three: 1939-1944
Photo by Jan Saudek: Untitled 6 (1985)
For mentalexotica
a cat is a cat is a cat is a cat
she’s whistling and clapping
for the cats
at 2 a.m.
as I sit here
with my
Beethoven.
“they’re just prowling,” I
tell her…
Beethoven rattles his bones
majestically
and those damn cats
don’t care
about
any of it
and
if they did
I wouldn’t like them
as
well:
things begin to lose their
natural value
when they approach
human
endeavor.
nothing against
Beethoven:
he did fine
for what he
was
but I wouldn’t want
him
on my rug
with one leg
over his head
while
he was
licking
his balls.
