"Man i'm beat"

“Everybody understands suffering. It’s something that we all share with everybody else. It’s at once utterly intimate, and utterly shared. So Buddha says, ‘That’s a place to begin. That’s where we begin.’”

I hope you get where you’re going, and be happy when you do.

While I was alive I wrote as if I would die

I considered suicide, but I felt a strange fondness for my body, my life. Scarred as they were, they were mine.

It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.

I don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

Gary Snyder Born on this Date

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

I’ll finish this poem in my next life.

our educational system tells us that we can be as big as winners. it hasn’t told us about the gutters or the suicides or the terror of one person  aching in one place alone.