LCMs highly official tips for teens � alt.culture.fabulous newsgroup � 26 Aug 1998
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. Begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with all its hopes and promises, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was a time when meadow, grove, and streams,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;--
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day.
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
The Rainbow comes and goes,
And lovely is the Rose,
The Moon doth with delight
Look round her when the heavens are bare,
Waters on a starry night
Are beautiful and fair;
The sunshine is a glorious birth;
But yet I know, where'er I go,
That there hath past away a glory from the earth.
Wordsworth
A day is a miniature eternity
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Her soul watched in helpless fascination
as the dark side of her mind led her body into hell
and there together
in the evil glow
her mind and body watched her soul die in helpless fascination
Unknown
A man named Zac
lies flat on his back
and cannot sleep because he thinks of years just ahead
when he will have become a fully developed vegetable
when he will have become a fully developed vegetable
when he will be inside himself completely, and be
turned half hourly and visited spasmodically
and more spasmodically.
The paralysis has reached his
waist, his voice is becoming
slurred his sense of humour sharper
'You dozy beggar' says the nurse
'Yes, I'm a dozy beggar' he says and
smiles and the nurse
you dozy beggar smiles and for a
Oh, I'm a dozy beggar second
please help they
please help catch each
Oh God other
Oh God still
Oh God smiling and the
Oh God second wheels
there's nothing my past bloated
friend my love it's extended with
slowly creeping fat
over you white
I know belly
I know and the eyes
there's nothing my see past each
friend my love other yet they
I know keep on
there's nothing my smiling
friend my love it's stretchedly
slowly creeping stretchedly
over you
I know teeth while
i know eyes scream
i know inwards
Linda Robertshaw
No one worth possessing
can be quite possessed
Sara Teasdale