“I need to get in line,' I said. 'Should I walk up with you?' 'No,' I said, 'because we'll start this routine all over.' 'What if I want to?' 'I'd like that,' I said. 'But don't.” Refrain Book:The Quarry and The Lot Source: The Quarry and The Lot
“The world is simply not anything any of us say of it our names are strange delusions pulling us back from a brink we are always falling through—” WorldSelfPoetryNamesPoemDelusionsBrink Author:Mark Wallace
“But he said to his wife, sitting next to him on the couch in the TV room, that rarely had he seen a funeral at which it seemed like almost nobody in attendance had any idea why they were there. His wife, who had heard things like this from him before, reminded him of a ceremony he had presided over only a few months ago about which he had had the same reaction. 'Oh right,' the minister said. 'Yes. That one was much worse.' He leaned down to the coffee table and picked up the remote.” HumorDeathApathy Book:The Quarry and The Lot Source: The Quarry and The Lot