Overheard in a chat room, of all places.
The past is a great restaurant menu
to pick and choose which dishes pleases or teases us.
We are not obliged to eat them all.
-Sammy Weller
(Especially shit.)
The completely unambitious writer and
the really good published poems are the things
we lack most at this time.
There is, of course, the problem of sustenance.
-Cosmosis_Loo
(Aye.)
The only truly unpretentious conversation
is one made with complete strangers
where you know not what is expected of you
and you know not what to expect.
-incapable_of_discourse
(Really?)