Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.
people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.
people just are not good to each other
one on one.
the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.
we are afraid.
our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.
it hasn’t told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.
or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone
untouched
unspoken to
watering a plant.
— from Love is a Dog From Hell: Poems, 1974-1977
there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. people so...