fire is beautiful
and we know that if we get
too close it will kill us
but what does that matter
it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while
- don marquis, the lesson of the moth
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Boketto
Boketto (japanese) --> the act of gazing vacantly into the distance without thinking.
(Also a book of poet...