In a time of chimpanzees, I was a penguin.
The religious right is motivated by the suspicion that someone, somewhere,
is having fun -- and that this must be stopped.
Asked why he wrote such sad songs, Townes van Zandt replied, "Well, you know, I don't think they're all that sad. I have a few that aren't sad, they're hopeless. And the rest aren't sad. They're just the way it goes."
-- Badtux the Sombre Penguin
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If ya don't see the glass half full, or half empty then freedom's just another thing for nothing left to lose....
ReplyDeletetownes was always sure to leave all the half glasses empty.
ReplyDeleteempty glasses, and bottles, and a full townes.
i miss him. he was maddening, a hard person to love, but i managed.