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Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.


Hubert H. Humphrey

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HUBERT MARTIN I always thought time was the most valuable currency, but I realized the people we spent our time on...
HUBERT MARTIN All my past heartache and pain suddenly made sense. That was who I would not be to the person who de...
HUBERT MARTIN It was the end for something. It was the beginning for another. But in reality it just fell in the m...
HUBERT MARTIN You are whole today, looking back at fragments of the past. Such a hollow foundation for such a powe...
HUBERT MARTIN I wanted nothing more than her attention. Her thoughts filled with me. Her eyes lost in my image. I ...
HUBERT MARTIN My body held on though I held snapped threads in my hands and patches of my flesh were missing entir...
HUBERT MARTIN She had the blood of the sun running through her veins and the dust of stars at her fingertips. Her ...
HUBERT MARTIN And though they fell as ashes, their shadows drifted as leaves.
HUBERT MARTIN I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape ...
HUBERT MARTIN He spoke in polished honesty free of liar's filth. He said the hardest words with an unshakable voic...
HUBERT MARTIN Her words were slickly lacquered, dripping with venom that singed the air as they fell. She traced h...
HUBERT MARTIN She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.
HUBERT MARTIN When it came to her, I became an indomitable warrior. My muscles became her shield and my lungs aide...
HUBERT MARTIN Hoping fast that my arrow's flight is steady and true,
I need this, I need my arrow to find yo...
HUBERT MARTIN My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-...
HUBERT MARTIN Whether it was in the maze of my fantastical mind or the allure of her gossamer eyes, they took me t...
HUBERT MARTIN She is beyond any mortal structure of words, yet she inspires the effort to try anyway.
HUBERT MARTIN She was the sort of girl who flooded my five senses. Her voice was melody to my ears, her taste gave...
HUBERT MARTIN That's what really broke me, she was better than any fantasy I could hope to imagine. I've spent my ...
HUBERT MARTIN I always deemed myself a one chance person, if you hurt me or betray me, then I'm done with you. As ...
HUBERT MARTIN She speaks in heartbeats and the rises of her chest, words forever seared in thoughts that will neve...
HUBERT MARTIN He sang softly, less with words and more with thought. She cradled his head, stitching together his ...
HUBERT MARTIN These places I traveled through, they were a lot like the people I knew. Some abodes I muddled about...
HUBERT MARTIN In a way, she became the sand to my hourglass... she made watching that trickling sand a little more...
HUBERT MARTIN She was carmine shadows reflecting from my crimson words. Every pulse sent a velvet ripple through t...
HUBERT MARTIN As I watched the sky morph shades of amber and amethyst, of fiery orange and smoldering pink, I alwa...
HUBERT MARTIN That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would...
HUBERT MARTIN I spill my emotions and hopes on pieces of paper and pixels of screens, combining and creating, merg...
HUBERT MARTIN