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An excerpt from Baudelaire's prose poem

"Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

"Drunken with what? With win, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

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"Confession: As a Christian, I am the bearer of a message packed full of love for people I am afraid to be around.

"Doesn't that sound rather convoluted? Stay away from the sinners but tell everyone about Jesus. How do you do that? Mixed messages like this have created a history of contradictions for Christians. On one hand I hold within me a love ( Read more... )

You can have all you ever wanted...

I know.
But I don't want it - No!
I can't want it anymore...

Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by
The rules of someone else's game.
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes
And leap...

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