no i don't want your sympathy
fugitives say that the streets aren't for dreaming now manslaughter dragnet and the ghost that sells memories want a piece of the action anyhow
go waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda you'll go waltzing matilda with me
Tom Waits
Waltzing Matilda
From Cole Porter's song: Never Be An Artist
Never, never be an artist
If you think you can make one cent.
Never, never be an artist
If you've no one to pay your rent.
Never, never be an artist
If you're faithful to your wife.
Never, never be an artist
Unless you want to have a wonderful life.
I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? … All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood, and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is ape to man? A laughing stock or painful embarrassment. And man shall be that to overman: a laughingstock or painful embarrassment. You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape.... The overman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth....
Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman—a rope over an abyss … what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
From "Lucy" by William Wordsworth - II.
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HE dwelt among the untrodden ways - Beside the springs of Dove,
- A Maid whom there were none to praise
- And very few to love:
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- A violet by a mossy stone
- Half hidden from the eye!
- Fair as a star, when only one
- Is shining in the sky.
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- She lived unknown, and few could know
- When Lucy ceased to be;
- But she is in her grave, and oh,
- The difference to me!
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
no i don't want your sympathy 
From Cole Porter's song: Never Be An Artist
I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? … All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood, and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is ape to man? A laughing stock or painful embarrassment. And man shall be that to overman: a laughingstock or painful embarrassment. You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape.... The overman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth....
From "Lucy" by William Wordsworth 
