Quotes

" My life has always been determined by my inimaginable pity for all human suffering"

"99.9% of everything I worry about only happens .1% of the time."

"In 5 words, he explains everything".

"How come every morning I wake up I find I set my alarm 10min too early?"

"you are alive now, but you will be dead for a long time"

"The best time of measurement is second per second"

"The happiest people don't spend time asking themselves if they are happy"

"The most beautiful people do the ugliest things"

"I've regreted things I've said, but never for not saying anything"

"The glass is not half empty or half full. it is completely full. 50% liquid, 50% air."

"There are two types of suffering, pain and boredom"

-Rettin

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Again I Think Of Brittany

Little Brittany

on my kitchen wall

with Little Carcinoid Tumors in 98'

Little Brittany when I was 18.

Little days

I check off one by one

Something about her face,

Something about her face.

I see it in her eyes

to be young and preparing to die

to have Carcinoid Tumors in 98'

when I was only 18.

I try to imagine her thoughts

knowing there is no hope

I see the casket and hear the crying

I try to imagine Brittany, died age 16.

Every now and then,

I'll sit in silence for you

and I'll keep you in my thoughts

though you never knew me,

I'd visit you with flowers

if I only knew where you rest....

I'll never forget you,

I'll never forget you.

-Rettin

(Brittany was a girl in a calendar, my mother had up on our fridge many years ago. It was a calendar of kids with cancer with a picture and little story about them. It was given to families that donated to finding a cure for cancer. All the children survived their cancer, thanks to donations. Brittany was the only one who died)

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High Society

how do people

spend money

they don't have.

I work at most fifteen hours a week

and I have plenty

of money.... I could

pay a few rents

and still get a cigar from J. Whites

then I'd go on as usual

nothing would be different

except I'd have a fancy cigar

to show off to my friends.

I'd carry it around

for days as it

dangled

from the ends of my lips.

people would say,

'are you ever going to lite that thing?'

'of course I'm gonna lite it,

what kind of a moron doesn't lite a fine cigar like this'

I'd say,

as I held it out

into the air

and the only thing surrounding it

was a perfectly clear blue sky

-Rettin

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