“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Socrates
“The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.” — Langston Hughes, Suicide’s Note
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” — Elbert Hubbard
And when I become the scum it’s my Job to drown
The pathetic hopes and failures of the Next unloved clown
Though maybe it would be a girl and We could become scum together
Decompose as the river flows
Become one scum together
Become one forever
One bloated rotten putrid scum forever
- Jeffery Lewis “East River”
“I was satisfied with haiku until I met you,
but now I want a Russian novel,
a 50-page description of you sleeping.
” — Dean Young
“There’s two kinds of women—those you write poems about and those you don’t.” — Jeffrey McDaniel
