My Familiar Dream

I often have this dream, strange, penetrating,
Of a woman, unknown, whom I love, who loves me,
And who’s never, each time, the same exactly,
Nor, exactly, different: and knows me, is loving.

Oh how she knows me, and my heart, growing

Clear for her alone, is no longer a problem,
For her alone: she alone understands, then,
How to cool the sweat of my brow with her weeping.

Is she dark, blonde, or auburn? – I’ve no idea.
Her name? I remember it’s vibrant and dear,
As those of the loved that life has exiled.

Her eyes are the same as a statue’s eyes,
And in her voice, distant, serious, mild,
The tone of dear voices, those that have died.

-My Familiar Dream by Paul Verlaine (Poèmes Saturniens: Mélancholia VI), Translated by A. S. Kline

Women

Lt. Col. Frank Slade: "Women! What can you say? Who made 'em? God must have been a fuckin' genius. The hair... They say the hair is everything, you know. Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls... just wanted to go to sleep forever? Or lips... and when they touched, yours were like... that first swallow of wine... after you just crossed the desert. Tits. Hoo-ah! Big ones, little ones, nipples staring right out at ya, like secret searchlights. Mmm. Legs. I don't care if they're Greek columns... or secondhand Steinways. What's between 'em... passport to heaven. I need a drink. Yes, Mr Sims, there's only two syllables in this whole wide world worth hearing: pussy. Hah! Are you listenin' to me, son? I'm givin' ya pearls here."

-Scent of A Woman

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Where's Pan…? He's been missing for a while, that horny son of a bitch, along with Silenus. I miss them both. And where are my maenads, nymphs, satyrs and silens? Tell Pan the child of Bacchus is calling out for them. The divine drunkard demands company and company he will get.

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Silence

Intoxication (The Infinite Happiness)

“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”

-Lord Byron

The Infinite Happiness by Nikolas Brummer 

Celestial

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The Chameleon Medicine

"Sometimes you have to be who you are not in order to be who you are. That is the mystery of the chameleon medicine" 

-Emanuel Nobody 

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