So summer is gone,
Leaving no epitaph.
It’s still warm in the sun,
Only that’s not enough.
All that true could have come,
Like a five-fingered fluff,
Folded into my palm,
Only that’s not enough.
No evil was sighted
In the good aftermath,
World was festively lighted,
Only that’s not enough.
Life forever was tucking,
Caring, making me laugh.
I was really lucky,
Only that’s not enough.
No leaves ever seared,
No limbs broken rough.
Day, like glass, washed all clear,
Only that’s not enough.

The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmitted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke. And from the rockets ran men with hammers in their hands to beat the strange world into a shape that was familiar to the eye, to bludgeon away all the strangeness, their mouths fringed with nails so they resembled steel-toothed carnivores, spitting them into their swift hands as they hammered up frame cottages and scuttled over roofs with shingles to blot out the eerie stars, and fit green shades to pull against the night. And when the carpenters had hurried on, the women came in with flowerpots and chintz and pans and set up a kitchen clamor to cover the silence that Mars made waiting outside the door and the shaded window.

(via themusicjunkies)

“Marijuana … makes you sensitive. Courtesy has a great deal to do with being sensitive. Unfortunately marijuana makes you the kind of sensitive where you insist on everyone listening to the drum solo in Iron Butterfly’s ‘In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida’ fifty or sixty times.” [P.J. O’Rourke, “Modern Manners,” 1983]

Loyal and generous. Patriotic. Competitive in everything. Active in games and interactions. Impatient and hasty. Ambitious. Influential in organizations. Fun to be with. Easy to talk to, though hard to understand. Thinks far with vision, yet complicated to know. Easily influenced by kindness. Polite and soft-spoken. Having lots of ideas. Sensitive. Active mind. Hesitating, tends to delay. Choosy and always wants the best.

(Source: machinefunk)

Life’s too short to stop eating apples.

 ♥ DECEMBER