To your final question, however, whether it is possible for me to take you as though nothing had happened, I can only say that it is not possible. But what is possible, and in fact necessary, is for me to take you with all that has happened, and to hold on to you to the point of delirium.
Kafka | letters to Felice
Lighting new cigarettes,
pouring more
drinks.
It has been a beautiful
fight.
Still
is.
Bukowski
Todos os dias lhe digo que não o posso amar mais, e todos os dias encontro mais amor em mim para ele.
Anaïs Nin
225 days under grass
and you know more than I.
they have long taken your blood,
you are a dry stick in a basket.
is this how it works?
in this room
the hours of love
still make shadows.
when you left
you took almost
everything.
I kneel in the nights
before tigers
that will not let me be.
what you were
will not happen again.
the tigers have found me
and I do not care.
Charles Bukowski
The Hustler, 1961