Joe

Thanatopsis

If ever there were a poem said to contain it all, I would say it is the one below. It's worth your time, even if you do not read poetry. The language is very old school. It was written around 1811, fi...
Posted by Joe on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:52:00 PST

Broken Dreams...

Desiderata Go placidly amid the noise and haste,and remember what peace there may be in silence.As far as possible without surrenderbe on good terms with all persons.Speak your truth quietly and clear...
Posted by Joe on Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:00:00 PST

The Price of Fame

"Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the somber renown of chinless kings. I mean long journeys across grey space. I mean danger, the edge of every void, the cir...
Posted by Joe on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:57:00 PST

Conrad

"...after a good spread, two hundred feet above the sea-level, with a box of decent cigars handy, on a blessed evening of freshness and starlight that would make the best of us forget that we are only...
Posted by Joe on Sun, 16 Oct 2005 03:07:00 PST

The Lapps

     "He had no real question that a god of some kind did indeed exist. His grandmother had been a Lapp, and in his childhood he had visited that queer nomadic people. Second sight...
Posted by Joe on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 04:04:00 PST