Location, Location, Location--Gabriel Gadfly

I could have kissed you
under cherry blossoms,
pale petals drifting down
like the trees wanted to
pretend they could be
snowclouds.

I could have kissed you
in the rain, drenched to
our bones and not even
caring that the skies
opened up above us
and tried to wash us out.

I could have kissed you
in a clearing in the most
secluded woods, with
just the sound of wind
rustling through the leaves
and a few voyeuristic
finches peeping at us.

Instead, I kissed you
in the parking lot of a
Waffle House, just shy
of 2 a.m. in the middle
of a hectic week, with
our waitress grinning
at us from the other
side of the window,
because, honestly,
how could I not?

In the words of a hooker:

'Cause men like to think they can rescue you. Like you got a disease and they got the special cure just waiting for you. Come in here, honey, don't ya want someone to understand you? Me, I understand you. I'm the only guy knows a chick like you. I got a dick as long as a Third Avenue menu but I got a heart bigger'n the Bronx. They fuck you like they're doing you a big favor. Every man wants a whore to rescue, that's the knockdown truth. It's a disease in itself, you ask me. Then, when they've shot their wad they just zip up and go and forget about you. That's something fucked up in the head.

--Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann

Sometimes we need to shout at who ever happens to be there.

God!
You fuck-face!
Your challenges are more than I can handle!
I've had it up to here with growth!

...I take that back!
Just, please! Help me stop hurting!
Help me to move on!
To let her go
wherever she needs to go.
To remember
our random, joyous temple kisses
...but not spend the rest of my life waiting
for her lips
to return.

Beau Sia, "Memory Sucks"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qdMqlKjjZU&feature=player_embedded

Yes it's completely corny and makes me seem like an overemotional teenager, but I don't care and it made me tear up a little and I love this image.

Science can be romantic.

"Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics. You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars. And the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So forget Jesus. The stars died so you could be here today."
Lawrence Krauss