Ala Faco

You must remember this A kiss is still a kiss A sigh is still (just) a sigh The fundamental things apply As time goes by And when two lovers...

Meet you downstairs in the bar and heard your rolled up sleeves and your skull t-shirt You say why did you do it with him today? and snif...

They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no' Yes I've been bad but when I come back you'll know know know I ai...

Harry Lime: Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had...

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I...

*By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite, undying- Lady, make a note of this: One o...

In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay, On sluggish, lonesome waters, anchor'd near the shore, An old, dismasted, gray and batter...

*A wounded deer leaps the highest. *Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. *Dying is a wild night and a new ...

Someone's taken a bite from my laptop's glowing apple, the damaged fruit of our disobedience, of which we must constantly be rem...

Novelist Bernard Malamud was born in Brooklyn, New York (1914). His parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia, and they struggled to sur...

Of Studies STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for orn...

*A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. *A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books...

For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns, Extremes ...

David Wolk Budbill 1940- We've got enough money now not to worry every minute about where the next dollar is coming from. We even go to...

The essayist and children's writer E.B. White, was born Elwin Brooks White in Mount Vernon, New York (1899). After college, he had a f...

May they never be lonely at parties Or wait for mail from people they haven't written Or still in middle age ask God for favors Or f...

by: Neil Young, 1945- There is a town in north Ontario, With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place to go, All m...

Was a man, was a two- faced man, pretended he wasn't who he was, who, in a men's room, faced his hung-over face in a mirror hu...

Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois (1899). As a young man, he wanted to fight in World War I, but he had bad eyesight so he v...