Speak Your Mind
Jul 14th, 2010
It is a finger snap. A bad relationship. I have lost more years to the fog of a cloudy memory; years of nothing connected by landmark moments in my life. Life. It’s a wish in the wind carried on the petals of a daisy, and as such carries along and lasts just as long as [...]
Jul 8th, 2010
If I could, I would smoke for the rest of my life. Not because I enjoy it; and not because it makes me cool, and certainly not because my friends are doing it. I simply started a long, long, time ago and now it is as much a part of who I am as my [...]
Jul 5th, 2010
The bitter part of the sweetness of life is made of bad decisions and laced with good intentions. It is part of the mystery: you make a choice and live with it, sure that you one day will wind up somewhere, hoping only that your end is as close as possible to where you planned [...]
Jun 30th, 2010
The little girl looked up, Smiled, said thanks and the man was puzzled Confused Thanks for what, he said, and she smiled Again And said thanks for horseyrides, for bike rides and big hugs for night time kisses on cheeks and foreheads and strong arms that carry me up the stairs Thanks, she smiled the [...]
Jun 24th, 2010
Billy was not as old as he looked. Torn down as he was by hard and foolish living, Billy was young in his mind, enough so anyway to suck in the gut and flirt with girls too pretty and far to put together for an sad old clown like Billy. Ah. Poor old Bill gave [...]
Jun 16th, 2010
Learned something new today: I am a talking head. That’s right. I who have spent 25 years writing have been tossed onto the vacuous nincompoop heap, an empty brain with chattering gums, spouting off and doing a little dance for the amusement of others. Pull a chord and watch me go – wheeee! I Am [...]
Jun 1st, 2010
Loyalty is a dying bird. Cast to the earth by the flung rocks of instant gratification and our incessant flavor of the moment obsession, to be loyal is to be past tense, out of it and just plain inferior. Get what you want now. Do it now. Be it now. Waiting is for whiners and [...]