PFI Quotes

“Do not trust their words.
Challenge them to a staring contest, at the sun.
That is the true measure of a man.
The willingness to ruin oneself to prove.”
― L.P. Cowling, Infinite

“Loneliness is a storm.
Not something relaxing, the pitter patter and distant rumble.
But the annoying pre-storm, wherein lives are boring, and not satisfying.

Hello?
Oh, the car crashed.
It’s sad, that’s so abrasive.
There are no voices in my head anymore,
But I’d welcome the company, you know.

Good thing I have nothing to hide,
So I’ll wait for you, and them.
~”
― L.P. Cowling, PFI: Poetry Collection

“don’t suck your thumb, i’m near.
lean forward, suck in the gut.
scraped knees don’t hurt,
i can see through any walls.
no, this is the purveyance always.
transcends sight and follows you.
you’re a man, or not, now.
but i can still see through walls.
so, don’t suck your thumb, boy.
~”
― L.P. Cowling, PFI: Poetry Collection

“This plant on my desk, he gives out a little oxygen.

He gives out a little green grow.

But he demands much, sunlight, water, I don’t know what else.

But he expects it.

He is my most demanding friend I let be.
~”
― L.P. Cowling, PFI: Poetry Collection

“it’s you i shaped my standards to.
you gave me too much personality.
i’m sorry you trusted me with that,
i’ve stolen it and not done well.
does anyone put pins in their hair?
is that anyone else’s fantasy.
in my memory,
everyone does.
don’t be disappointed in me,
i think if i was less abrasive
you’d probably understand
why there’s no lifeboat
you were never the type for lifeboats,
only in emergencies, is that true though?
maybe that’s just my imagination.
there are probably no pins in hair.
~”
― L.P. Cowling, PFI: Poetry Collection

“friends are so much work,
so much upkeep.
i don’t know how you do it,
or even why.
you charge your phone at night,
but never yourself.
you were not born introverted,
is that your gift?
it’s wednesday,
i’m tired already.
how do you look forward to things?
how is that your release?
authors, a terribly introverted lot.
thank you for profiling,
i’m embarrassed it’s accurate.”
― L.P. Cowling, The Primrose Pages

“Stuck between the most confused, and least ignorant.
You’d think that’d be a contradiction, yet here I am, living this way despite your preconceived notion of that kind of an oxymoron.
I live in defiance of what you think – and it is torture.”
― L.P. Cowling, Faith