— John Masefield, from The Collected Poems; “Sorrow of my Death,”

i am going insane

I’d like an off button, or at least pause, to control my feelings for you - until I feel some reciprocation.

I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2005) + waking up / morning

Fireworks (1947), dir. Kenneth Anger

when Charles Bukowski said "and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?"

Charles Bukowski.

From Richard Littler Twitter

Face by Nicholas Scarpinato

Détective (Jean-Luc Godard, 1985)