i just need you to know
that i say these words
that i walk this line
as awestruck and gun-shy a straight line as this is...
because i am broken
because i am lonely
because i have nothing but these broken statues, tattered maps
that if i could just take anyone
i'd save my people
but my people see
they know the paths are beaten
they have seen the flowerless field
they have retreated back to camp
so, we don't take just anyone
so, we don't eat but twice a year
so, our ribs cry manic arias through soft, thin flesh
we have our pride
we have our idols back here in this cloth in this satchel
quick, hurry: they're coming!
i, i, i
- steven
- "Seeing that before long I must confront humanity with the most difficult demand ever made of it, it seems indispensable to me to say who I am. Really, one should know it, for I have not left myself "without testimony." But the disproportion between the greatness of my task and the smallness of my contemporaries has found expression in the fact that one has neither heard nor even seen me. I live on my own credit; is it perhaps a mere prejudice that I live? ... I need only to speak with one of the "educated" who come to the Upper Engadine for the summer, and I am convinced that I do not live ... Under these circumstances I have a duty against which my habits, even more the pride of my instincts, revolt at bottom, namely, to say: Hear me! For I am such and such a person. Above all, do not mistake me for someone else!" - Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
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