It was sad really, that so little had made me cry.
It was sad that the broken cappucino machine was what
finally, inexorably tipped my salty cups and let the tears slide
over the rim.
And that was the moment, I can pinpoint it.
Like a beacon it stands out against the pale
night on the ocean.
The winds have shifted.
Flags, wet […]

Time for the slippery slope again
Stuart Smalley should be here for my daily affirmation
“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like to take advantage of me.”
It’s enough to make me sick,
which would explain the feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Wednesday is coming, a looming leviathan on the horizon.
Time for commitment, I […]

Pour the whiskey on the wedding bed
Strike a match to burn to ashes
Stay my shaking hand
Confidence and impotence
Never held much congress
And one has abandoned me
in the final funeral wake
Raise this white flag cause you know
I have surrendered and caved to every demand
Let’s just prick our fingers
On barbed-wire intangibles
And smear our names across the treaty’s dotted […]

Tonight made itself evident
Manifesting the truth
Lucid, unabashed
Not in-your-face style
Just simply stated the obvious
The things we all know
It did not imply anything
Or make vaccuous claims
Nothing astounding
Nothing shocking or unexpected
And in that way it was a
Disappointment
Things should end like fireworks
and cannon-balls
Not fizzle and sputter out
Like a gas gauge gone empty
This night should be
Bombastic
And I should be shell-shocked
But […]