i made loving you
my identity (now i
see how wrong that was)
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 137.”
experience
SOL: Bungled
laughing at my own
shortcomings, the electric
flourish of defeat
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 136.”
SOL: Inexperienced
the past loves of my life can
all be summarized simply:
we were too young to know
how to love each other.
3AM Thoughts // AKA “If We’d Met At Any Other Time, We Would’ve Been Fine.“
SOL: Tainted
How much of my own
Personality is drenched
In your fingerprints?
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 71.”
SOL: Denial
she thinks herself my
friend, yet she is drowning in
repressed dreams of me
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 58.”
MIND: Merriment
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
// Michel de Montaigne
MIND: Source
When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.
Meditations // Marcus Aurelius
MIND: Repentance
A woman has to live her life,
or live to repent not having lived it.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover // D.H. Lawrence
SOL: Mockery
she only drinks cheap liquor
mixes it with lemon, proclaims it divine
sipping from jagged jam jars, calling herself
a sophisticate through bloody lips
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Your Otherworldly Desire is Condescending.”
MIND: Adventure
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
// Jane Austen
