"If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.”
“I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information....my mother called me to set the table for dinner. She sat me down in the kitchen, and under the classic caveat of 'loving each other very, very much,' explained that when a man and a woman hug tightly, the man plants a seed in the woman. The seed grows into a baby. Then she sent me to the pantry to get placemats.”
“I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling out
under the ochre sandstone arch, the red tiles glinting like bent
plates of blood behind his head, I see my mother with a few light books at her hip
standing at the pillar made of tiny bricks with the wrought-iron gate still open behind her, its
sword-tips black in the May air,they are about to graduate, they are about to get married,
they are kids, they are dumb, all they know is they areinnocent, they would never hurt anybody.
I want to go up to them and say Stop,don't do it--she's the wrong woman,
he's the wrong man, you are going to do thingsyou cannot imagine you would ever do,
you are going to do bad things to children,you are going to suffer in ways you never heard of,
you are going to want to die. I want to goup to them there in the late May sunlight and say it,
her hungry pretty blank face turning to me,her pitiful beautiful untouched body,
his arrogant handsome blind face turning to me,his pitiful beautiful untouched body,
but I don't do it. I want to live. I take them up like the male and female
paper dolls and bang them together at the hips like chips of flint as if to
strike sparks from them, I say Do what you are going to do, and I will tell about it . i was my dream , too much dream .. hehe :P
