There is blood on the sidewalk.
There, just outside the door.
Blood, red, a pool that is still moist
and it spreads – dripping over the curb.
This is not metaphoric blood –
the blood of a nation or of a cause.
It is not the blood of innocent babies
plucked from the safety
of their collective wombs.
It is not the blood of a hero,
or of a martyr, or of an innocent victim.
I have cried tonight,
and I cried my heart out.
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The thing about being naked is… well, you’re naked. There is no false illusion: What you see is what you get… almost. Sure, many “I Love You’s” have been uttered while naked, but they are soon exposed for what they really mean, “I want you.” In some ways being naked is like being really drunk….
Love never given, Love never taken, is love forever lost. Romance never given, romance never taken, is wasted seed for a dying womb. Emotion never given emotion never taken, is feeling only the pain. © All Rights Reserved
Riding on the Elastic Firecracker bus I am taking the magical mystery tour of the nineties. Come on along, hop on aboard, see what the noise is all about. Cut your strings, free your inside out, revel in the revelations of the Tripping Daisy. The perennial high hides in my mind; to the cat eye…
Eight eyes staring at me from ten inches above the ground, Blue eyes, green eyes, brown eyes – Waiting for me to break down, waiting for my soul to die so they will have something to eat. Overhead, a cardinal sings, long, loud, a pretty song… When I float by it takes to wing. Eight…
Viscous crackers in the early morning: Reading between the rows of incomplete sentences looking for the ragged edges of your soul. Those tattered threads strewn about like so much lint seen floating across the last ray of hope. Too fresh to throw away, worn enough to be trite. There in the words splayed across the…
The first thing I wanted to do on the day that I turned forty-three, was to say that I was fifty-seven and watch your eyes roll to the heavens, and listen as you boldly proclaim “My, don’t you look good for your age.” © All Rights Reserved
