Michael Ainsel

Words like veins in the leaves of pages, the twigs of spines, the branches of shelves, in the tree of The Library.

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Watching the dinosaurs complain about the meteor.

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Marble Orchard - (n) sing.
Nonagernarian term for what is commonly known as a 'cemetery.'

[Michael Ainsel @Metaphiction]

You will love
what you have killed.

- Kevin Lambert

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They are the last of the Leaside bungalows, sensible cars on asphalt driveways.

Monster mansions and Mercedes loom large in their rear views.

[Michael Ainsel @Metaphiction]

Stop waiting for things to be easier.

Just fucking do them.

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Quotation from... Somewhere:

"Every person must suffer one of two pains:

The pain of discipline, or the pain of regret."

Again, Gardeners vs Carpenters.

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Live your life by constantly flinging yourself out of planes, and you may well die.

But you'll certainly fly.

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There comes a time in your life when you have the chance or the urge to go skydiving.

And that's your last chance, though no one ever realizes it.

So if you want to take it, you had better. It will not happen twice.

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In my mind
Paradise sounds like
Arrival of the Birds
From The Theory of Everything
Over and over and over again.

That's a place I'd be happy to live.

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No. You see. You got it all wrong.

What Delilah was trying to teach you was to master your scalp.

But Samson lost himself in his locks.

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Finish lines breed complacency.

You can't "solve" racism, or sexism, or privelege.

There are no finish lines.

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Take what you can.
And from that,
Make what you can.

It's all you'll ever have.

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He formed a band in his late 30s. "Stupid Shit for Pretty Girls", he called it. A final, overt nail in the coffin of libido squandered in optimistic idiocy.

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We speak with our bodies first.

You can tell me that you stand for any number of things.

But until I see you standing in that room,

with head bowed,

silent in mourning for what had been lost,

I will not believe you. #Christchurch #EndRacism

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He'd hoped for great things
--GREAT great things--
But, alas, his spokesperson was a reclusive android.

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A smell bit at his notstrills. He couldn't tell if it was sanitizer or soil.

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Fear not the siren call of the model, the actress. It is the girls next door who will maroon you on jagged, blasted shores.

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In the case that you should ever doubt what you're capable of:

This week I met a young girl without forearms who's armwriting is as neat as my handwriting.

Feels like wisdom @DefinePonny already knew.

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Spent a week on a lake in the woods, with sun and storm.

All of a sudden our cozy little basement doesn't feel big enough.

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Least I should forget.

Dad: "I already know all about Chanie Wenjack"

Me: "How's that?"

Dad: "I met his sister when I was working in Marten Falls. She told me his story."

Me: 😶

Dad: "And those snowshoes in the basement? They were made by his grandfather."