Love is awful!
It’s awful.
It’s painful.
It’s frightening.
Makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself.
Distance yourself from the other people in your life.
Dear Leonard, to look life in the face, always. To look life in the face, and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it, for what it is. And then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years, always the love, always the hours.
I'm cleaning up and I'm moving on, going straight and choosing life. I'm looking forward to it already. I'm going to be just like you: the job, the family, the fucking big television, the washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electrical tin opener, good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mortgage, starter home, leisurewear, luggage, three-piece suite, DIY, game shows, junk food, children, walks in the park, nine to five, good at golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas, indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing the gutters, getting by, looking ahead, to the day you die.
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these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life
But poetry,beauty romance love
these are what we stay alive for
