I am out with lanterns,
looking for myself.

- Emily Dickinson
1) it’s not selfish
to be kind to
yourself

2) it’s not selfish
to be kind to
yourself

3) it’s not selfish
to be kind to
yourself

- john roedel 
to love those who despise us
we must become like rainclouds
over the desert

we must pour our compassion
out even if it means it will
evaporate long before it reaches
the ground

- john roedel
pieces of cosmic energy
caught inside this temporary jar
of humming organs and flowing veins

- john roedel
I'm not here to own a river.
I'm here to surrender to the flow.

- John Roedel
     3:30 a.m.  - I’ve been up all night.

     And now I really can’t sleep because I just learned that a group of
butterflies is called a kaleidoscope.

- John Roedel
and after being so wounded
you became grounded to gravity

- john roedel
am I my own soulmate?
- John Roedel
be so very
careful

when trying to fit
in

with everybody
else

~ because accidentally
someday

you just
might ~

(...)

remember remember remember
fitting in is for sardines

- John Roedel
The nothing
spot
where
a tree’s
so long
ago been.

- Eileen Myles
Time had
us in
its nest. You

will always
be the
best.

- Eileen Myles
I’m just
doing
everything
all over
again
drinking
coffee
and being
alone

- Eileen Myles
Can
You survive every gotdamn thing? Centuries in, centuries out, the roller mill
revives colonial wheats. The germs of revolution collapse to flap like
cards in the spokes of
Zarathustra.

- Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
I cannot bear time.
- Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
CORDELIA
Once Satan is gone from this world, we will feel a peace we have never known, 
a freedom too.

QUEENIE
You really think that, once Satan is gone, humankind is just gonna change?

CORDELIA
I choose to believe in our better version, yes. I think it's important to imagine a world 
wihout evil. No hunger, no war, no child going to sleep afraid.

QUEENIE
Well, Pollyanna, you live in a pink cloud very, very far away from reality,
but I'll play along. There'll be no disease or bigotry. Maybe if Satan is gone, everyone
will just get out of each other's way and do their own thing.

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