a wrinkle in time

            I know what kind of man I am, I grew into it. And I also know what kind of man I was before, a man with no place to be, with a heart full of pride and not much love at all. I had to work toward the change. Love takes time and effort. You have to earn a place to be, you have to be worthy of it or it isn't really a home. Without heart, you are always just a tenant without a lease. You can be evicted on a whim. This home is mine.

James Lee Jobe

Paul Cézanne

Like the sky at dawn, silent and vast, 

Let my being merge 

With the timeless immensity of being alive. 

I am the universe, the universe is me.

James Lee Jobe 

Slim Harpo - Raining In My Heart

            Like a wrinkle in the dark, or a wrinkle in time. More than thirty years later, her smile is still the same. And pulling her in close, she still feels the same in my arms, and the clocks spin in reverse. Time backs up like a truck to a loading dock. The man on the forklift is ready, and the truck will be loaded in no time at all.

James Lee Jobe

There is another world, but it is in this one.  

Paul Éluard

James Lee Jobe

            Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.

Patti Smith

            That I might peel away the layers of nonsense I have built around myself that hide who I am. That I might know myself before the time of knowing comes to an end, and that I might use that knowledge, such as it is, in a positive manner. This I pray.

James Lee Jobe

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