Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life? Sylvia Plath

I LoVE Leonard Cohen

Still on Tour and soon in France again

Moments

“There are moments that I’ve had some real brilliance, you know.
But I think they are moments.
And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough.
I never felt I played the great part. I never felt that I directed the great movie.
And I can’t say that it’s anybody’s fault but my own.” Dennis Hopper

Each man kills the thing he loves

Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!


Each man kills the thing he loves

Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.

Each man kills the thing he loves

Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell, and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.



The Ballad Of Reading Gaol, OSCAR WILDE