The markers of quit

What is ugly in the elderly is the resignation, the markers of quit.

Someone's normal

That which seems outrageous, that which seems unbearable, is someone's normal.

A condemnation

That every step is a step away,
a step further into the strange,
is a condemnation of others,
not a criticism of self.

He who is too timid to ask

He who is too timid to ask
is not worthy to know.

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I have ceased

I have ceased to believe in anything that requires belief.

Fade & ascend

The thinkers-of-the-thoughts fade...the thoughts ascend.

Ashes, at least

Ashes, at least, were something else once.

The ones

The ones I loved best are the ones I best imagined.

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We only owe

We only owe what we own.

The criteria

Anyone can be best if they are allowed to set the criteria.

An illusion

The idea of an illusion is an illusion.

If you can't see

You can’t see the forest for the trees if you can’t see the trees.

We are all destroyed

We are all destroyed by something other than the thing we think is destroying us.

Flatten

To flatter is to flatten.

How much we depend

How much we depend on what we believe others already know.

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What is left (Dunlop)

You feel the loneliness.
That's what is left of the dream of beauty.

Rishma Dunlop, from "Saccade"

Almost heroic

It is almost heroic to see that the heroes are not who they tell you they are.