Contemplative

No common failure,

whether it be sickness or bankruptcy

or professional misfortune,

will reverberate so cruelly and deeply

in the unconscious as a divorce.

It penetrates the seat of all anguish,

forcing it to life.

With one cut, it slices more deeply

than life can ever reach.

                                  --- Botho Strauss

(Shot with my eyeball and stored in my brain)