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born to a deaf asbestos salesman

"I feel...what? A restlessness.  A feeling to be over the woods at the end of the street and far away, away. And at the same time I have a kind of homesickness for where I am. Is that possible? I have a feeling that something, somewhere has been left unresolved, that some secret thing in the air around me is still waiting to be discovered." SPIES Michael Frayn

It was a feral existence. I was on drugs. It was hand to mouth

HAIKU #3 To freeze the moment In seventeen syllables  Is very diffic John Cooper Clarke  

I would rather die a natural death than be prepared for it by the academy.

  “Does what goes on inside show on the outside? Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney.”   Vincent Van Goh - Ever Yours: The Essential Letters

Encaustic

"Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times, I paint it and then see it." Jasper Johns

The White Negro

“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation . ” Norman Mailer - The Presidential Papers

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me

I felt a tremendous distance between me and everything real. HUNTER S. THOMPSON - Rum Diaries

Nevermore

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." Edgar Allan Poe,   The Raven