Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!
It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget.
I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.
I took a photo of us, mid-embrace. When I am old and alone I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful.
Oh diary, I love her, I love her, I love her so much. Jordana is the most amazing person I have ever met. I could eat her. I could drink her blood. She's the only person I would allow to be shrunk to microscopic size and explore me in a tiny submersible machine. She is wonderful and beautiful and sensitive and funny and sexy. She's too good for me, she's too good for anyone! All I could do was let her know. I said: "I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.
For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed.
After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel like a distant bureaucracy controlled by telegrams from her brain, and I said my body is sometimes like that of Mario Mario, being controlled with a Nintendo joypad. Mario's surname is Mario.
That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.
Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.
People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. . . They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.