but isn't there always one good thing to look back on? think of how many cups of coffee we drank together.

whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.

It's just that the grape has me down.

I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.

your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.