The darkness holds ...

• foul, unclean things
• an ultimate star
• more lessons than the light
• many keys
• spiritual realms
• secrets
• the haunted
• a shroud
• eternal sway
• becoming
• its ancient place
• all things together
• hidden wonders
• nature still in ebon folds
• different dangers and terrors
• mysteries
• its velvet hands
• more than just fear and unease
• strange forms
• no despair
• embedded dreams
• treasures and revelation
• my agony
• its breath
• no hope for tomorrow
• us down
• almost an undivided dominion
• the vale
• perpetual reign
• barely a memory
• no fears
• more than what is visible
• the light of absent eyes
• all loveliness beyond the mere design
• surprises
• you
• somewhere a rose

• to attack before dawn
• statistics and a shared sense of loss
• to work out a dignified way to come down
• figuring out how to pay for it
• to get back to your bedroom
• to liquidate and save whatever can be saved
• the Devil, and he's stuck
• to color the outlined spaces
• to connect all the wires, turn it on, and hope it works
• to mobilize all efforts
• the peace
• this nutty buttery ice cream cone
• to dispose of the body
• the memory and the experience
• to pray
• the pain and relief
• to hold hands and rock in the corner in despair
• the hard part
• to accept responsibility for your actions
• the deepness
• to uproot them and throw them into the fire
• to give up
• to cure what might have never occurred
• the good night hug
• for me to ask if it's worth it
• the error-trapping routine
• to be sorry—humbly, bitterly sorry—and swear never again to be unkind—never never never again—until the next time
• to show up with a lampshade on my head
• my sense of surprise

• on one drop of blood could linger for thousands of years?
• discovered his lover wasn't another nosferatu but was instead (shudder) a human
• had a conscience?
• used a lost dog to lure victims?
• could feed on pure emotion?
• has silver fillings in his teeth?
• faces the choice of turning someone or letting him die right then and there?
• underwent psychoanalysis?
• felt remorse for his actions?
• moved in next door?
• wants to send his grandmother a photograph, but he is invisible in each picture?
• thinks he's a werewolf?
• does escape his old sect?
• became involved with artificial blood research?
• needed to travel quickly from New York to Los Angeles?
• is already among us?
• tried to hold on to the light?

• you must leave the ball by midnight, because then the magic will end, and your clothes will be rags again
• words that sound like fox don't have to be spelled like fox
• you cannot draw something if you do not know what it looks like
• not only have you changed, but so have the people you are returning to
• a compass does not really point to true north, except by coincidence in some areas
• we all have the same instrument, whether some of us have shaped it into the body of a dancer or not
• you are not alone in this
• the Great Wall was constructed over a period of thousands of years
• always discriminate between fish
• when drawing a clown, everything gets exaggerated -- that is, big nose, big mouth, weird hair, and huge shoes (usually with toes sticking out)
• glue makes wood swell
• things do go through fads, so it can be hard to say what new ideas will stick and which will be discarded as a passing fashion
• proceed one thing at a time!
• any "off" odor generally means "off" flavor as well
• learn to yelp and cluck
• we may have misunderstood the purport of a doctrine which repels us
• pressed flowers must be collected when in plentiful supply and dried well before you will need them
• political cartooning is a negative art
• the body was made to be used and not to stand idle
• floods are not abnormal happenings but a regular part of the way nature works
• all the problems you left behind have not magically disappeared
• no one is going to treat your possessions with the same tender, loving care that you would yourself
• ideas can be successfully studied only in the concrete
• all nappy hair is not bad, and all bad hair is not nappy
• there is often more than one way of working out a given problem
• a bee’s wings are held at shoulder height
• there's a limit to the amount of double duty a plot of ground can do
• you cannot delete your termination entry

• cover ourselves in camouflage nets
  
• apply a dozen or more leeches
  
• take action to undo the contorted posture of inaction into which we have been twisted by events of the past few years
  
• bring forth a mind of respect 
  
• confess our faults
  
• pull back our forces
  
• think of the Buddha's name
  
• establish a modern communication policy
• recall the faults of anger
• get a truer glimpse of the inner struggles
• set up a complete blockade
• reduce our unnecessarily large consumption of butter and condensed milk
• engage in prayer
• stress that there is no better fuel than uncertainty to promote speculation
• end the chaos
• create a file folder
• consult with our allies
• tune the transmitter to that frequency and answer when the calling station gives the invitation
• change the basic equations of both kinematics and dynamics
• extricate ourselves
• recognize the necessity of making plain the ambiguity of the terms as the very first step in our explanation

• in Washington until officially denied
• especially in charcoal
  
• but that which rings of right
  
• and everything is permitted
  
• but the brutal, the vulgar and the vile
  
• in the false, cruel sea
  
• and anything is possible
  
• and nothing is eternal
  
• until it is discovered for oneself
  
• or what is true is not evident to us
  
• but falsehood
  
• but Heaven; nothing sure excepting sorrow
  
• is a logically untenable statement (the phrase destroys itself)

Begin now because …

• to do the thing properly requires time and champagne, and at present neither are handy
• even those who have the highest hopes are worried
• things that you see around you will change
• the clock is ticking
• it looks like rain
• it is not going to go away
• we cannot afford to wait until a better technology comes along
• we will need all our imagination and our wisdom to cope with some of the critical moral questions soon to be thrust upon us
• the process can be long and challenging
• solutions will likely time time
• the risks are too grave and despite the associated difficulties, there is a great potential for good
• budget limits are already in place
• there’s so much to cover tonight
• of the great amount of lead time required
• we have become totally morally decadent
• it will be easier now
• the longer we delay, the further behind we will fall
• the complexities start to snare you
• when we do recover we are going to recover because we put things on a sound basis
• it is a revolutionary time
  
  

• dillydallying
• crying
• changing your mind
• waiting
• chit-chat
• repentance
• deliberation
• grudges
• hesitation
• subtleties
• fussing and fighting
• cuckoo clocks
• extracurricular activities
• diplomacy
• flourishes
• buts
• do-overs
• sorrow
• feelings
• slumber
• dessert
• goldbricking
• idle brooding
• civility
• pity
• distractions
• daydreaming
• second chances
• feeling sorry
• cuddling
• the news
• grand exits