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Stella

Almost could not see her Each time she would pass I seemed to look away There are somethings that never change in life Attraction awareness words like these They did not have what I usually had drank the last weeks I don't usually drink anymore I didn't really decide but I had a friend She stopped drinking for what seemed to be no reason I joined her and found I did not miss The drinking I have loved is about the company I have now had the experience of not being drunk in a crowd of drunks The image of myself in all those crowds came to me Not regrets that i want to settle Whatever is novel A book of remembering includes I was not there to drink They did not have what I usually have I was there to see her You have to have a reason not to drink You do not have to have a reason not to drink There are good reasons to drinkI did not know what I was doing There are good reasons not to drink People think they know the reasons people do not drink A pressure you will find nowhere else ...

Generation Why?

What we could have done is so much more than what we did.  The world had seemed to be going in a direction.  People were proclaiming the end of history.  In New York something is true as long as you can sustain it.  Wolves have tailored sheep's clothes. The end of the cold war is the first thing you want to know about us.  We had seen brinkmanship,  Chicken is not a game anyone with sense will play, but at some point the destructive capacity of people became greater than our planet.  In 1980 we started to believe in miracles that didn't matter.  There were two camps and ours was better financed. Kennedy imagined the UN flag on the moon.  That was one of the very first facts I researched.  It has never fit the narrative of my life.  We needed to win.   Strength of presence has beaten strength of idea here since.   We walked on the moon alone in 1969.  We amended the law to finally include clean water.  S...