…madness is not hysteria. It can be very quiet… - Anne Sexton

The tongue, the Chinese say,
is like a sharp knife:
it kills
without drawing blood.

I am, to be sure, afraid that if you knew me that you wouldn’t love me. But this must be faced…I fear it in any relationship. Thus I am perhaps afraid to reveal facts about things…or to say too much for fear if I make too much noise you’ll drift away, pull down the shade of your ivory tower…and after that. Afraid, I guess, that I’ll loose you…I keep losing people.

And I say to myself that the trouble with life is that people are strangers.