Vodka Sorrow

Be merciful to me, LORD,
for I am in distress;
my eyes grow weak with sorrow,
my soul and body with grief.
~ Psalm 31

For with much wisdom
comes much sorrow;
the more knowledge,
the more grief.
~ Ecclesiastes 1

Organ Donor

Circumcise your hearts
~ Deuteronomy 10

Far Away Eyes

I myself will see him
with my own eyes—
I, and not another.
How my heart yearns within me!
~ Job 19

Please Please Please

So I turned to the Lord GOD
and pleaded with him in prayer
and petition,
in fasting,
and in sackcloth
and ashes.
~ Daniel 9

Good times for a change
See, the luck I've had
Can make a good man
Turn bad

So please please please
Let me, let me, let me
Let me get what I want
This time

Haven't had a dream
in a long time
See, the life I've had
Can make a good man bad

So for once in my life
Let me get what I want
Lord knows, it would be the first time
Lord knows, it would be the first time

Marxists

He upholds the cause of the oppressed
and gives food to the hungry.
The LORD sets prisoners free.
~ Psalm 146

Good Days Bad Days

The LORD Almighty
has a day in store
for all the proud and lofty,
for all that is exalted -
and they will be humbled.
~ Isaiah 2

Gustave Flaubert, 13 November 1872

I am overwhelmed by the stupidity of the public. (...)

The bourgeoisie is so bewildered that it no longer even possesses the instinct of self-defence. And what will come after it will be even worse!

I feel the same sadness as the Roman patricians of the fourth century. I sense an irremediable barbarism rising from the depths of the earth. I hope I will be a goner before it all gets swept away.

Never have the interests of the spirit counted for less.

Never has the hatred of all greatness, the disdain for the beautiful, the execration of literature been so blatant.

I have always striven to live in an ivory tower. But a sea of shit is beating against the walls to make them totter.

~ Gustave Flaubert, 13 November 1872

I am going to bring foreigners against you,
the most ruthless of nations;
they will draw their swords
against your beauty and wisdom
and pierce your shining splendor.
~ Ezekiel 28

Silence.

Yet I am not silenced by the darkness,
by the thick darkness that covers my face.
~ Job 23