"‘All our life is lived provisionally,’ he said. ‘We think that for the time being things are bad, that for the time being we must adapt ourselves, even humiliate ourselves but that is all just temporary, and that one day life, real life, will begin. We get ready to die, still complaining that we have never really lived. Sometimes I am obsessed with the idea that we have only one life and spend the whole of it living provisionally, waiting for real life to being. And thus time passes. Nobody lives in the present. Nobody has any profit from his daily life. Nobody can say: On that day, on that occasion, my life began. Even those who enjoy all the advantages of belonging to the governmental party have to live by intrigue, and are thoroughly nauseated by the dominant stupidity. They too live provisionally and spend their lives waiting.’"
Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine
Of course there’s the young paramilitary
with machine guns outright
and then there’s the loaded
shoebox in the nightstand of the more mild mannered
living on all the streets that live and
breathe the clash for me
til i can just sing the broken concrete
as the inevitable course of things to come
The inevitable course of things to come
but my foodstamps ain’t no badge of honor
Hum the satisfaction of progress
halted dead in it’s tracks
boards across windows
hum the satisfaction of progress halted
in a chorus of decay
bars across windows
I can see the stains on the pavement
from the heavy crimes on the way to work
or walking the dog behind empty buildings
or walking the dog between empty buildings
(Young) Pioneers - Food Stamps, First Virginia Volunteers, 1994
(via nataliealice)
(Source: yimmyayo, via backwardsbackwoods)
(Source: yimmyayo, via backwardsbackwoods)
Screaming Females - Rotten Apple
On repeat for the past couple days.
This lighter was made and given to me as a going away present by my dear friend reina
Rock and roll.
