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“Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was another irony because, for so long, he had shunned the tube for a similar purpose—to prevent it from bombarding his brain with demons of banality. However, each time he turned the machine on, he began to discover a world of assorted delights, as well as gain insight into the insidious manner in which this medium was shaping the mass psyche. If nothing else, he learned there was nothing innocuous about it.”
― The Petting Zoo
― The Petting Zoo
“He who hides his madman dies voiceless.”
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“The mere ambition to write a poem is enough to kill it.”
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“Evening prayer
I spend my life sitting, like an angel in a barber's chair,
Holding a beer mug with deep-cut designs,
My neck and gut both bent, while in the air
A weightless veil of pipe smoke hangs.
Like steaming dung within an old dovecote
A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:
From time to time my heart is like some oak
Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
And then, when I have swallowed down my Dreams
In thirty, forty mugs of beer, I turn
To satisfy a need I can't ignore,
And like the Lord of Hyssop and of Myrrh
I piss into the skies, a soaring stream
That consecrates a patch of flowering fern.”
― Complete Works
I spend my life sitting, like an angel in a barber's chair,
Holding a beer mug with deep-cut designs,
My neck and gut both bent, while in the air
A weightless veil of pipe smoke hangs.
Like steaming dung within an old dovecote
A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:
From time to time my heart is like some oak
Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
And then, when I have swallowed down my Dreams
In thirty, forty mugs of beer, I turn
To satisfy a need I can't ignore,
And like the Lord of Hyssop and of Myrrh
I piss into the skies, a soaring stream
That consecrates a patch of flowering fern.”
― Complete Works
“SIMPLICITY
That's what's been missing from my life: simplicity. Slowly but
surely I'm beginning to change.
For example, these days I never leave my house without taking my
bed along. If a woman passes by and catches my eye, I take her to bed
immediately.
If her ears and nose are ugly or too big, I remove them along with
her clothes and put them under the bed, ready for her to take back
when she leaves; I keep only what I like.
If she could use a change of undergarments, I arrange it. It's my
gift. If, however, I see a prettier woman walk by, I voice my regrets to
the first and poof! she disappears.
Some people who know me claim that I can't do what I've just
described, that I haven't got the balls. Well, that may have been true in
the past, but that was when I wasn't doing everything exactly the way I
like it.
Now I always enjoy my afternoons. (Mornings I work.)”
―
That's what's been missing from my life: simplicity. Slowly but
surely I'm beginning to change.
For example, these days I never leave my house without taking my
bed along. If a woman passes by and catches my eye, I take her to bed
immediately.
If her ears and nose are ugly or too big, I remove them along with
her clothes and put them under the bed, ready for her to take back
when she leaves; I keep only what I like.
If she could use a change of undergarments, I arrange it. It's my
gift. If, however, I see a prettier woman walk by, I voice my regrets to
the first and poof! she disappears.
Some people who know me claim that I can't do what I've just
described, that I haven't got the balls. Well, that may have been true in
the past, but that was when I wasn't doing everything exactly the way I
like it.
Now I always enjoy my afternoons. (Mornings I work.)”
―
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