Her one drink had her giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.
Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?'
No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.'
Where are we going?'
I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!
There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.
"we have the critical sense
and are not easy to fool with laughter"
— Charles Bukowski
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(I am constantly confused by
the lack of durability in human
affairs).
"Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking. [Cecilia to Henry Chinaski (liberty taken changing past tense to present tense), p 173]
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it.
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 If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.
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