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Musings on a Wooden Breakfast
No food in the house today. I stare at the wooden furniture Biscuit sitting on the desk. It doesn’t look all that inviting But it looks better all the time. Don’t worry. I won’t eat it. It’s not that big … Continue reading
Musings in the Sauna
He lies there naked, sprawled as if just hit by a bus. Sweaty, slick and shiny. Unmoving. I see his chest move. No need to call the medic. His head nods. Perhaps he has acknowledged My entry into his world. … Continue reading
The Virtues of Digging into the Unknown
Like a curious child who must ask his mother To let him go into the world, you must give Yourself permission to go into the dark. Do not waver, do not wait for Your eyes will acclimate to the dark. … Continue reading
Musings on Sand Bathing
Twenty Little Sparrows Bathing in the Sand No one to call them home No one marking time They flutter and rest Flutter and rest until I approach and disturb the sunless Bathing with a schedule and a purpose They cannot … Continue reading
Musings on Crumbs
Crumbs on the table. I see them there but do not care. A little dirt is no deterrent, Creates no desire to turn away. The world’s too clean by far. Antiseptic and bare Are not the ways of Nature. Man-made … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, poetry
Tagged cleanliness, compost, crumbs, ideas, imagination, musings, poetry, soul, sterile, Sterile environments
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Musings in the Dark
There is a certain comfort in walking Purposely into the darkness. You can’t see anything in there But it can’t see you either. You can see out. Those left Behind cannot see in. In the darkness fireflies play, Flashing in … Continue reading
Musings: Good Time to Believe in Reincarnation
This would be a good time to Believe in reincarnation because as You’ll see karma isn’t real. Give me your future, I said, I’ll invest it and we’ll prosper And rejoice together. But now I have to tell you The … Continue reading
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Tagged future, investment, karma, musings, poetry, reincarnation, The 1 percent, the 99, Wall Street, water
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Musings on a Friendly Leak
The faucet has issues. We both know it. I look away when she goes kunk, kunk, kunk. I don’t like to stare. She pretends it didn’t happen. But the water trickling from her hose Like a fighter’s bloodied nose Is … Continue reading
Musing: Turning Glycerin to Dust
The bottle says Glycerin. It is not. Unless glycerin turns to Dust. And while I suppose everything Can turn to dust in time I hold to my Intuition that this is not glycerin. No amount of rubbing the mysterious Dust … Continue reading
Musings on Abandonment
You said it wasn’t abandonment (You just knew I had went) You said the freeways have more exits (Oh, are you still perplexed) I said honey, please (Honey’s just for bees) Don’t abandon me (You’re already history) Don’t abandon me … Continue reading
Posted in Personality, poetry
Tagged abandon, abandonment, blues, breakup, musings, poetry, relationship
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Fortress of Dissolitude 