The Transparent Eyeball

“Shanti has a neurological disorder,” he says, describing the current residents, “and Snow Leopard has some kind of childhood trauma where he doesn’t leave the closet. But they’re so lovely. My job is a strange one, with no routine, so it’s nice to have some kind of responsibility, even if it just means filling up two bowls.”

~ Jesse Eisenburg

Come up to meet you, tell you I’m sorry
You don’t know how lovely you are.
I had to find you, tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart.
Tell me your secrets, and ask me your questions
Oh, let’s go back to the start.
Running in circles, calling tails
Heads on a silence apart.

Nobody said it was easy,
It’s such a shame for us to part.
Nobody said it was easy,
No one ever said it would be this hard.
Oh, take me back to the start.

~ Coldplay

The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions.  The hypothalamus controls the “Four F’s”: fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating. 

~ Marvin Dunnette

Marc says the suffering that we don’t see
still makes a sort of sound—a subtle, soft
noise, nothing like the cries of screams that we
might think of—more the slight scrape of a hat doffed
by a quiet man, ignored as he stands back
to let a lovely woman pass, her dress
just brushing his coat. Or else it’s like a crack
in an old foundation, slowly widening, the stress
and slippage going on unnoticed by
the family upstairs, the daughter leaving
for a date, her mother’s resigned sigh
when she sees her. It’s like the heaving
of a stone into a lake, before it drops.
It’s shy, it’s barely there. It never stops.

~ Kim Addonizio