And complaining loudly via telephone to all that will hear. The Freecell game will be open on your screen, forever waiting for your next move that will never come and wouldn't have done any good anyway because you always lose that game. There's nothing beautiful or artistic or romantic about having no money, or about being in pain. But there's a reason I don't live my life stoned on opiates. You can swallow some pills or smoke some herbs and see only beauty and feel only wonder, but we consider people who never come down addicts, and we consider addicts unhealthy for a reason.
Love is pain.
I see the harried seagull and its pursuer have returned to this bit of the bay. The seagull has lost strength. The menacing bird is not alone, two reinforcements have joined it. One strike, and one of the dark birds has forced the seagull down into the water. The seagull cries out, frantically flapping back up out of the water.