“Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings,
grateful to me for reuniting them.”
~ Glen Duncan
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Poet Writer Albany NY
“What was your phrase? ‘God’s gone, meaning too, yet aesthetic fraudulence still has the power to shame …’ Aesthetic fraudulence, notice. Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly—and my dear man, you can’t stop caring about beauty. That is your real predicament, your real curse.”