Concept Statement (Part One)

I speak of love that comes to mind:
The moon is faithful, although blind;
She moves in thought she cannot speak.
Perfect care has made her bleak.

-Allen Ginsberg, "An Eastern Ballad"

I was sheriff of this county when I was

twenty-five. Hard to believe. Grandfather
was a lawman. Father too. Me and him was
sheriff at the same time, him in Plano
and me here. I think he was pretty proud
of that. I know I was.

-No Country For Old Men

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation

of men engaged in rash undertakings.

-Blood Meridian

It was a lone tree burning on the desert.

A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire.

-Blood Meridian

I always figured when I got older, God would sorta

come inta my life somehow. And he didn't. I don't blame him.

If I was him I would have the same opinion of me that he does.

-No Country For Old Men

If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

-The Road

People were always getting ready for tomorrow.
I didnt believe in that.
Tomorrow wasnt getting ready for them.

It didnt even know they were there.

-The Road

Why don't you come up here, pony, now come on, please let's us go
I said, "Come up, get up now, please pony, now let's us go"
Let's we saddle on down on the Gulf of, of Mexico

-Son House, Pony Blues

So I’m going back to the place where we met
I’m going to find the beer bottle we left
Wedged in the limbs of the tree that we sat in
Wedged in the magnolia tree

-The Avett Brothers, Left on Laura, Left on Lisa

Death don't have no mercy in this land
Y' know death don't have no mercy in this land, in this land
Come to your house, you know he don't take long
You look in the bed, you find your mama is gone
Death don't have no mercy in this land

-Rev. Gary Davis, Death Don't Have No Mercy