MrLife

WHAT IS THE POINT?

All this talk of getting old,
It's getting me down my love
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown.
This time I'm comin' down... (The Verve)

Life is an immobile, locked,
Three-handed struggle between
Your wants, the world's for you, and (worse)
The unbeatable slow machine
That brings what you'll get. Blocked,
They strain round a hollow stasis
Of havings-to, fear, faces.
Days sift down it constantly. Years. (Philip Larkin)

Oh that this too, too solid flesh should melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew; or that the everlasting had not set his canon 'gainst self-slaughter. Oh God, God, how weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world. (William Shakespeare)

I quit. I give up. Nothing's good enough for anybody else it seems.
And being alone is the best way to be.
When I'm by myself it's the best way to be.
When I'm all alone it's the best way to be.
When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye.
Everything is temporary anyway. (Edie Brickell)

Blessed are those in the struggle,
oppression is worse than the grave.
It is better to live an die for a knoble cause,
than to live and die as a slave. (Black Samurai)

• To Edie Brickell
• Are you ok? I sense that you hurt. Can we talk, May we talk? David

I'm not sure if Edie Brickell reads Guilty Expression - maybe we should write to her.

Life is hard and so am I
You better give me something so I don�t die
Novocaine for the soul
Before I sputter out (Eels)