-within any poet there must be 3 things. First the poet to define the experience. Then the person to have the experience and react. Then the beast, for wherever there is man there will always be a beast abated behind every breath.-
Alejandro D. Peruga Martinez
It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. In the same way, a single year does not have just spring or summer. A single day, too, is the same. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation.
-hagakure
The storm rolled in quietly under the cover of a heat wave causing the atmosphere to dance with electrons that seemed to excite the skin and tweak the nerve. I had watched the sky darken tethered to my register like a trained monkey. Finally I was free but only to swim home beneath a barrage of bullet bursting droplets. The people that ran down the seemingly dead Wisconsin avenue must have thought it crazy to watch me march down without even noticing the rain. I knew however regardless if I ran or not I would still receive the same soaking.
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The metro was all glittery with grit and grime. The escalator was like a fifty years smokers esophagus leading me down to the gears and guts that made the heart of DC's dying public transportation. It was there where I would wait for eight minutes with other strangers to climb aboard a fluorescent tube that vaguely smelled of piss and vomit. Another ten minutes would roll by of awkwardly attempting not to stare at my fellow travelers who were awkwardly attempting to avoid my noticeable gaze.
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