The Ring

By, A.

Dedicated To: Jerry N - for the ring, Li Po, Calvino, Kundera, Borges, Ruff, Rexroth, Walt Whitman, Carlo Rossi, Captain Morgen's, Jim Beam, cheap beer, Old Golds, The train, Hao inc., Moyniboy, Third-row, Em (for all), RVH (for almost putting up with all my shit), C., The '65 Lincoln, Roger Williams, Mexico, New Orleans, Chicago, Key West, Ho House, 44, pool room crew, brother Vincent, J.C., Corina, the crazy russian, Bonnie, Farnsworth, Freedman, Pope.L, Mingus, Common Sense, Tom Waits, August and Everything After, Lewiston, The Mothership, The Way, everyone else I either forgot - or you don't deserve thanks.

"Here's a little story that must be told"

-Common Sense

"Try to make it real, but compared to what?"

-Roberta Flack

"The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.

Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant."
                                                                                                  -Milan Kundera

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