Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. - Richard Wright

In a drizzling rain,
In a flower shop’s doorway,
A girl sells herself

If the stars twinkled more than usual on any given night, it meant that the angels in heaven were happy and were flitting across the doors of heaven; and since stars were merely holes ventilating heaven, the twinkling came from the angels flitting past the holes that admitted air into the holy home of God.

A sleepless spring night:
Yearning for what I never had
And for what never was.