The Stars Are A Free Show

"'...But you don't need to get like that. If you've got any education, it don't matter if you're on the road for the rest of your life'
'Well I've found just the contrary,' I said 'It seems to me that when you take a man's money away he's fit for nothing from that moment.'
'No, not necessarily. If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and ideas. You just gotta say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here"' - he taps his forehead - 'and you're all right'"
-Down And Out In Paris And London by George Orwell

-S

Morningside

Uprooting weeds from five years ago - they tower above me now and haunt me at dusk. Their shadows reminding me to finish what I started: "I will remain present until you face me. I am eating away at your secret garden". So I used the strongest poison and all it did was sting my skin. I tried machinery but I got caught within. I looked down at my bare hands and pricked each and every one of my limp fingers tugging on these terrors.
I got caught in vines today. I choked on some of that ivy today. I smoked the leftovers of my pot today and I rocked myself to sleep.

-S