who am i? i'm mr. superfly

Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it.

For the moment I am really very, very tired of everything — more than tired.

“Split like a clam on ice, I feel raw, half-eaten. I rot…”

    sometimes so much joy     it strips me bare lilacs grow beside             the city asphalt             and             my mouth can’t open                 wide enough to sing the possibility still left in me.

someone: *in a tone i don’t like* th-

“It’s that I couldn’t bear to be half in this world; I went after Poetry as after the love of my life, as though from one to the other I might not die. I cried in front of waves and saw in poems the clear sky. I took pleasure and revenge.”