“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.”
“There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still.”
“To the wise, a prick on the finger avoids a hole in the heart.”
“The world is fantastic...it's the ultimate absurd circus and I am shot from a cannon into the energy!”
“Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?”
“There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with potential tears, like a water balloon filled to burst. Begging for a pin prick.”