Welcome to the Nomesphere

WARNING: this journal contains swearing, sexual references, and occasional references to drug use. If that content offends you, please read elsewhere.
Secondary Warning: Despite my best efforts (or perhaps because of them) this journal is likely to contain typos, improper use of grammar/punctuation/spelling, and other assorted offences to the English language.

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The following are my favourite poems:

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Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.
Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
For I dance,
And drink, & sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life,
And strength is breath,
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live
or if I die.
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I would rather be ashes than dust
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze
Than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor,
Every atom of me in magnificent glow,
Than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
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The tears I feel today
I'll wait to shed tomorrow.
Though I'll not sleep this night
Nor find surcease from sorrow.
My eyes must keep their sight:
I dare not be tear-blinded.
I must be free to talk
Not choked with grief, clear-minded.
My mouth cannot betray
The anguish that I know.
Yes, I'll keep my tears till later:
But my grief will never go.
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By William Blake, Jack London and Anne McCaffrey, respectively.

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big_knights very quiet.
star_trekking quiet.
voy_stillness I'm the background mod.