Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. — Epicurus
I don’t remember the first time I smoked a cigarette
But it probably happened in summer
some beachside alleyway,
my bathing suit bunched up around my thighs
A half Asian girl nonchalantly pulling a pack out of her purse
Laughing and gnawing at her painted nails
dressed in a ratty t-shirt and running her hands through layered hair
somehow years of DARE
didn’t seem so important
(Found from the NY times)
sexual priests
sweeping Germany
molesting boys
Bishop down
In the matter
"It depends on what you mean by responsible"
from his office, the answer to that question
has already been given
The German Bishops Conference
announced sexual-abuse
for abusers
Bishop Ludwig Schick of Bamberg
was surprised
that the matter had to be dealt with
"its bitter and its hard but it absolutely has to be worked"
"This abscess must be opened"
You will stay on, restive, serene in Your gesture which is neither embrace nor warning But which holds something of both in pure Affirmation that doesn't affirm anything -John Ashbery
How would they respond if I chose the Crow over the Dove?
Favoring the Cawwww to the Coooooo
