Hold Your Own

We needed something new to fill the emptiness that grew; and what’s better to believe in than all-you-can-eat Freedom!

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by payment plans

A thousand fans screaming your name is nothing compared to one lover who whispers it and knows what it means.

If you have a shit job and you don’t love your girlfriend and your life is killing you, take a fucking risk for once. If some people don’t hate your work, you’re not doing it right.

I woke up and reached for one of the books by the bed. It was Bukowski. I opened him at random and read a poem I’d not read before – it was called How To Be A Great Writer and in it he said: remember the old dogs who fought so well: Hemingway, Celine, Dostoevsky, Hamsun. if you think they didn’t go crazy in tiny rooms just like you’re doing now wit

True love takes its toll On souls Who are not used to feeling whole.

Sensitive people are frequently beaten up by things insensitive people can’t see. If you’ve been beaten up, good for you. If you’ve never been beaten up, good for you. If you get beaten up all the time, you should take up boxing. It’s ok to feel alone. Usually you are. That’s what poetry’s for.

And he saw then: no matter how far you have come, you can never be further than right where you are.