dduane:

theblackparadeisdead:

theblackparadeisdead:

What’s that poem about the cockroach and the moth where the cockroach is like “I wish I’ve ever wanted anything the way that moth wanted to burn itself up in that lantern” because we had to read that in high school and it still fucks me up to this day

Ok I found it it’s called “the lesson of the moth by archy” and it’s by Don Marquis

An old favorite. (And the incident with the moth in The Door into Fire is a nod toward this, though not an obvious one.)