the ten commandments of crime

"pain is not a flower pain is the root" --Paul Monette

Cante jondo.

2.

the life so short,
the craft so long to learn
fewer doors open than shut
the life so short

& eagerly we shoot
as the bronze rays decline
the life so short
the craft so long to learn

Sequel to Shantaram.

"...beyond the noise
Man maketh on the tabor of his will,
Until the small round burst, and pale he falls."

--Orion

"for what else is there
but books, books and the sea"

--Derek Walcott