If A Man's At Odds

Things Happen To You They Happen. They Dont Ask First. They Dont Require Your Permission.

The Small Wad Of Burning Paper Drew Down To A Wisp Of Flame And Then Died Out Leaving A Faint Pattern For Just A Moment In The Incandescence Like The Shape Of A Flower, A Molten Rose. Then All Was Dark Again.

There Is For A Man Two Things In Life That Are Very Important, Head And Shoulders Above Everything Else. Find Work You Like, And Find Someone To Live With You Like. Very Few People Get Both.

For Even If You Should Have Stood Your Ground, He Said, Yet What Ground Was It?

This Is My Child, He Said. I Wash A Dead Man's Brains Out Of His Hair. That Is My Job.