* Well these were the things, the birds in the dripping trees, the white cranes picking their way through the red water lilies, the handsome boys dancing on the stage, the nicely turned out, handsome, dark young man lounging at the door, all of it took him grasping and gasping into a skylark sky where everything was trashed, where everything that was lost, those terrible days, were just nothing, fleeting. Before the sunshine comes the rain. Before the good comes the bad. We Thais have a saying, he heard the man say, or now, lost in those labyrinthine bars, was it a woman, warning him, you have the heart, you have the heart, be careful, these things always end up crashing on stony ground. Rent boys. Charming smiles. I love you long time, cheap, cheap, the girls barked. It was the smile that did it. He smiled at him and the rest was history. Kindness, he pointed at the word in the dictionary; pleasing, pleasant, happy; an entirely different set of words to only a few weeks ago, moody, treacherous, untrustworthy, disturbing, conflicted, so he pointed at the sky and nestled into his stomach and the words came easily: bad times are good because they are always followed by good times. Before the rain comes the sun, before the sun comes the rain. Everything is fleeting. Let go of all attachment.
The Beauty
The Beauty
The Beauty
* Well these were the things, the birds in the dripping trees, the white cranes picking their way through the red water lilies, the handsome boys dancing on the stage, the nicely turned out, handsome, dark young man lounging at the door, all of it took him grasping and gasping into a skylark sky where everything was trashed, where everything that was lost, those terrible days, were just nothing, fleeting. Before the sunshine comes the rain. Before the good comes the bad. We Thais have a saying, he heard the man say, or now, lost in those labyrinthine bars, was it a woman, warning him, you have the heart, you have the heart, be careful, these things always end up crashing on stony ground. Rent boys. Charming smiles. I love you long time, cheap, cheap, the girls barked. It was the smile that did it. He smiled at him and the rest was history. Kindness, he pointed at the word in the dictionary; pleasing, pleasant, happy; an entirely different set of words to only a few weeks ago, moody, treacherous, untrustworthy, disturbing, conflicted, so he pointed at the sky and nestled into his stomach and the words came easily: bad times are good because they are always followed by good times. Before the rain comes the sun, before the sun comes the rain. Everything is fleeting. Let go of all attachment.