We hardly knew ye

Poor Michael. It's unfortunate that for certain artists dying is sometimes their best career move.

Say, what?

Almost anything can be read again with profit. Almost anything can be read again with profit.

Heaven can wait



If happiness is the goal, why not live in a dream:
a velvet coffin floating in a soft stream
through a warm and endless evening?

Nature couldn't know we'd ever have guessed
our node of pleasure, locus of our lust...
So can't we tickle it now, eternally,
and pray not to be rudely waked some day?

The dark side of excellence

"...Carla had a gift that had brought her pain simply because it was not a bigger gift..."—Kathryn Chetkovich in Appetites

When first you perceive you've a gift,
it gives you a wonderful lift.
But then comes the joker:
you're still mediocre,
so you know that you've really been stiffed.