We had conquistador ambitions. Battle plans were made, but we had no troops. Now we are aging generals, we still have no troops. Maybe we were meant to do nothing but plot. We had a cavalcade of ambitious, disruptive plans, but none of them worked out. The best one now is to grow old together. [...]
I write two kinds of poetry: “On Demand” – meaning: people give me a topic, a time constraint (3 minutes), and a number of words. These poems are usually rough. “I Meant That” – poems I worked on without constraint. I started a new category called “Best Poems“, which is a collection of category #2 [...]
When she’s feeling her worst, the only comfort she wants is to be told everything will be OK. I’ve learned to tell her this, even though I know it’s a lie. If I am ever beside her on her deathbed, and I tell her that, I fear she’ll leave this world with the realization that [...]
I’ve been to the bottom and back. Sometimes I leave because they kick me out, other times I get enough sense to leave on my own, but mostly I can’t remember why or how I left. Usually I have to take a cab home, and get my car in the morning. I’ve been to the [...]
You can tell a true lover by the gifts they give. When you only get them on occasions, dutifully, when millions of people probably got the same thing, Love is coerced. The true lover finds you gifts randomly, accidentally; the world is the gift shop for a museum about you. She brings them to you [...]
