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L U S H

M E T A P H Y S I C A L

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one’s own path, not that of the crowd.

– Nicholas Tharcher

Just Another Spring Haze

Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere)arranging
a window,into which people look(while
people stare
arranging and changing placing
carefully there a strange
thing and a known thing here)and

changing everything carefully
-E. E. Cummings

Always

“I am not a has-been. I am a will be.”
-Lauren Bacall

O C E A N I A

“Your sweat is salty, I am why…”

We’re Not Bad People

“We just come from a bad place.”
-Sissy Sullivan

Rekindled That Which I have Lost

“We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what’s the worst that can happen?”
-Michael Fassbender

Variety And Multiplicity

“The greatest pleasures are born of conquered repugnancies.”
―Marquis de Sade

Desolation

Pain, the only thing one can trust