Primitive Mentor Quotes

“Kissing a rose is a dumb thing to do
not just from the rose's point of view.
But it's a start
like driving off a cliff's probably a finish.
In beween you'll probably want to go to Mexico,
get so drunk you think what you're doing is a dance.”
― Dean Young, Primitive Mentor

“Difficult to believe what hurts so much
when the cement truck bounces you
off a tree trunk
is not solid knocking solid
but electron cloud repulsing electron cloud
around the overall emptiness of matter,
a clash of miniscule probabilities
in the beehive of the void.
Somehow you're only scratched and bruised
but the driver's in agony,
no license no immigration paper
a picture of his wife still in Oaxaca
five kids he sends money to
so you try to assure him you're okay
look not hurt
hopping foot to foot
which only seems to him
you've got trauma to the head
or were already loco
either way problemo.
Your bicycle bent,
he lifts it tears in his eyes
which are mirrors showing everything
on fire in black water...”
― Dean Young, Primitive Mentor

“The quality of mercy is not strained, there's like,
umm, lumps in it.”
― Dean Young, Primitive Mentor