3 Libras & A Few Lines About Actually Doing It

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you don’t have to fork over your whole self–
but if it’s just going to be trivia,
your shoes, your Coke, your moving lips,
then forget it–I’m serious–
just forget the whole thing

(Mark Halliday)

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if you’re going to try,
go all the way
there is no other feeling like
that.
you will be alone with the
gods
and the nights will flame with
fire.

(Charles Bukowski)