Skinny

Soft lips caress, brush light across mine, igniting sparks wake my slumbering soul. Touching fingertips dance with glee, then retreat, fingers intertwine, hold on for this moment in time. Tracings designs on to your neck, and farther still, on to your breasts, excited nipples reach out to mine. Breast to breast we rest, hardened flesh…

Serenity, You elusive goal, I searched you out for so long in so many dark places deep inside my mind. I looked for you in faces of people I saw around. I sought your ever presence in pets that I brought home. I sought you out in churches, in temples of eastern faith, in dingy…

What can be more sobering than watching a drunk in action, with eyes that won’t open more than half-way, ready to kick some ass in a fight that can’t be won, scheming for a sympathetic ear while being schemed for later pleasures by so-called friends, and, finally, in spite of any sense of rationality, in…

The remnants of the previous hour stretch out pink before me, a medicine cabinet supply exhausted, the end to my reality. I resign myself the sticky wetness on my face and hands, no reason to clean the wretched mess my life force draws to end. A constant pounding at my door reminds me why I’m…

I know your name, your age, and your address, Your best friend and your sexual preference, Who you dated in high school, and since then, Much more do I know, yet we’ve never met. Finding you out was easy, It only took me one day; I know you’ll think this is sleazy, But your license…

To know what hate feels like is to know the bitter side of life, it steals little pieces of your soul, little pieces that might never grow. I was at work the day after Christmas, nineteen eighty five, when the call came. And my boss, who was my friend, handed me the phone with a…