Picky And Tricky; Hardly A Hickey

It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow. - Thoreau

it just isn't fair

i breathe this fallen world's air

whilst i lose my hair

Author's Note

"We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten." - Thoreau