The War Prayer
by Mark Twain
[1904]
It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down [...]
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” ~Groucho Marx
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….. for $5 and under. when you only have five bucks and you want to spend it.
} buy coffee for you and a friend, sit outside and talk
} buy a nice new pen and write a page about something, anything at all
} give your $5 to someone who really needs it
} buy a 7″ record [...]
… i sometimes live among ghosts. ghosts of the people who are no longer here, but still haunt my dreams. my mother thinks that i am morbid. other people might think i need therapy. why is it that people’s first reaction is to exercise grief? why can’t it just be what it is. it will [...]
…. like spending time in the sun. in a city that worships the summer as if once it’s gone, they face the sentence that is fall and winter. it is rumored that there is a high rate of suicide here (i have never made an effort to validate that statement), but i attribute it more [...]
Stick with me, he said and I didn’t doubt he meant it, when he said it
Close your eyes and imagine that the Christmas lights are blinking
Warm peppermint scent of whiskey smoky hands and blistering endless days
Cold quiet comforts silence, bathed in the pink evening light
Tracing fingertips over your calloused knuckles
I exhaled whispery thoughts
[...]
Black eyes bright and clear
Dusky winds passing through
Perched upon the mattress dear
Frozen beads of morning dew
Curling lips and thunder clouds
Threaten furrowed brows anew
Covered underneath the shrouds
I am but just passing through
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I am missing you again
In mistakes that I have yet to make
In dreams that have recurred
In yellowed stains upon my dress
In the tape I had long forgotten
In songs that have just been created
In letters printed by hand
In gestures of life
In the curve of my arm
In faded papers worried with water
In blackest nights I’ve spent alone
In [...]
Phone rang, thought it was you
Calling me back to say
That it was okay
[...]
Feeling powder fingertips
Pressing on and on
Coolness washing over me
Blinking eyelid lights
Releasing knots and creaky limbs
To melt into the shallow grass
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Dancing on wind lit nights
Traipsing through hallowed grounds
Flying through the atmosphere
Floating on ethereal sounds
We remember all those days
Littered with the falling light
Walking further away
From all that is new and bright
I remember yesterday as though it were tomorrow
The pastel shades of walking ways
I couldn’t help but follow
You were there with icy eyes
In ways I could never [...]
