The Kitchen Sinks of Yesterday Morning Quotes

“Then you think, is this a better world, closer to the
one before you knew of wars—
earth wars? Before you found that canary in its cage
laying, barely heaving. And you took it outside and said, Go Free! Go free!
But it died there, right in your hands…
like all of life.

Is the ash in trees, babies, flowers, and visions of God
better than the visions themselves? Then you think,
none of this is tangible or concrete. So you have another cigarette
and think about the (not one) but many ghosts you keep tucked away,
under sheets, under beds, in notes, within other ghosts.”
― Derek Keck, The Kitchen Sinks of Yesterday Morning: The Urinal Cakes of Tomorrow

“I say, we live on, though I am wrong, this is what I say.
In the past, present, future, we live on as if in one time.
You can never stop the past from happening,
and it has happened , and will continue to happen.
This is the truth, I think I know, along with

the two other things I do know.
I exist.
I want to kiss you.

And also this: each day, as we go,
we will always be as young as we can be.”
― Derek Keck, The Kitchen Sinks of Yesterday Morning: The Urinal Cakes of Tomorrow

“For, I think, when I woke up today, with a dream of yesterday still in my eyes,I felt tired in life. And thinking of the little blond girl of Mays & Junes long gone by,I felt strange looking on a field of wheat, and I thought, in a moment I was God and so was she, and this field was us too. So long gone, she goes. But I am still her, whether she comes and goes like all of life, or she stays awhile.
Once, a man of physics told me, matter cannot be created or destroyed. And on
another occasion he said everything came from one point, in the beginning.
So we are all flowers and rivers and trees. That was all of us together. Every one of the past, present, and future.”
― Derek Keck, The Kitchen Sinks of Yesterday Morning: The Urinal Cakes of Tomorrow