The World Keeps Going Round

I knew a man once that threw his engagement ring off a bridge, gave away all his records and books, quit his job, and was beaten for no reason leaving a bar. The brain damage from the beating left him off, like a mild stroke. The heart ache was still worse.

I saw him smoking crack in an old warehouse, he told me how he was adopted. His birth mother had been rapped and he was the result. His whole life seemed to be soaked in pain.

“From perfect grief there need not be Wisdom or even memory. ” - Dante Gabriel Rossetti