Happy Nielsen

"And you stop clocks from ticking when you kiss me."

"I always said I would never  Fall in love, but you strolled in  With the moon and the stars And"

"Oh, how I yearn for something to blame! Please, let it be anything else. I’m so tired of being the cause of my pain."

"I was used to intoxication. I’m familiar with engulfment, total loss of selfhood. No, this was more akin to crumbling embers. Or perhaps a faintly lit cigarette on forest floor."

"I wake up shattered. Each morning is a reclamation project; putting myself back together from the constituent parts that make up less than their sum, somehow. I am wabi-sabi’d with dime-store epoxy. I piss on the seat because I’m staring at my phone."

"Vaping is a poor replacement for the burn of cigarettes, though. It’s the smoking equivalent of “Is Pepsi okay?”"

"Smoking is the perfect suicide attempt"

"wondering if I only smoke because it’s “cool” or because I like knowing it’s ever so slowly killing me"

"Cigarettes carry something beyond the nicotine and tar. A feeling. It’s melancholy in a tube. In them I found the comfort I had been looking so hard for underneath my skin, within my blood."

"Best cigarettes for beginners?"

"asymmetrical heavens above whirling silent dangerously beautiful and"

"Slip me in the sea and let me sink to the dark, cold depths"

"How dare they display their love for one another?! Abomination!"

"What did you retire from? Musta been a lawman or a bandit, one.” “Not much difference t’ween the two at times, you ask me.”"

quite the understatement "“That don’t bode well for nobody.”"

"There is a man called "Joy""

"Five shell for a full breath of words at your disposal, he offered"

"still remember my first lantern. Down the path to the cliffs, glass glittering in the bushes and in the dirt before the sand swallowed it, pieces of burst metal hiding between broken shells, basket empty, eyes too."

"Instead he let go of the light he had worn, And stepped into love’s quiet reign"

"Let my teeth taste your heartbeat As it collapses against me"