Despair came knocking

At my door

And I let her in

For a while

She sat on the couch

In the end, smoking

She said nothing

— DANIEL JOHNSTON

• Learn To Become A Poet
  Learn to become poet; it’s to unlearn how to live.  —Michel Houellebecq Anything can happen in life, especially nothing. — Michel Houellebecq
• Caring For Myself Is Not Self-Indulgence
  Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. — Audre Lorde
• The Christ In You Doesn’t Die
  The Christ in you doesn’t die — it resurrects. — Joseph Campbell
• Nothing Is Predestined
  Nothing is predestined, the obstacles from your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. — Ralph Blum
• Frighten Me Into The Present
  Teach me mortality, frighten me into the present… That the nights will be full enough and my heart feral. — Jack Gilbert from poem I Imagine the Gods