Random Awesomeness

Two Crows Two crows were in our hot tub last night I tried to shoo them away But as everyone knows Crows Don’t dissuade easily I’m pretty sure they were talking about something that might have been interesting If you’re into that kind of thing But when they saw my beautiful sweetie and I approaching [...]

This city hates meOr that’s what I thoughtBut nowAs the sounds of dramaOutside our hotelMingle and muddleWith the slow realizationOf all the cheap-assed amenitiesInside our barely adequate roomAnd metastasize It’s just a sad sadSad Francisco Never mind the shitty signage on the freewayOr the paltry excuse for an overpriced crab sandwichNever mind the boarded up [...]

“The world is going to hell” He said looking at me like he expected a contrarian response. “And I wish more people would see that. But nobody seems to care although I get it, as if there’s anything anyone can do about it” “Whatareyagonnado” I replied. And then said to myself “perhaps this one might [...]

gratitude gathers great bundles of hope and trust for joy to share with happiness living as peace and love since fear found its own place and all that anger got back to work healing rather than dealing then the metaphor police comes in and tries to spoil the party with proper usage taking mischief out [...]

sometimes the darkness feels like forever the creeping cold of slow death the slammed door of failure cutting off all connection all access to joy sometimes the darkness smells like a friend a warm bed the sanctuary of sleep seducing where dreams and nightmares rule sometimes the darkness sees the artist working giving depth and [...]

stepping out the rubbish bin of global spectacular pain the rancid residue disconnect and eternal grift are slow to remove watch it stick see the splatter nothing notable here save my love no one cares but for ego away i stay you run my soul no more be gone dark trickster soon enough i’ll be [...]

i know how to live it’s easy sitting here in my blessed privilege i know how to love even when it’s difficult the most powerful force in the universe can be that way i know how to move and breathe to look and listen communicate be a person among people i know but there is [...]

the stifling loneliness of a cold chair at four in the mourning brings the only liberation hacking that last tiny chunk of yesterday reminds this body life is good no more reason to try or cry no more confusion what comes goes someone died on wednesday a grand testament to a very very personal failure [...]

winter of 1973 (or 72 or 74) i can’t remember now whatever year it was it was cold so very cold that was the year my dad accidentally set the house on fire trying to thaw frozen water pipes with a propane torch a lot got burned up including my brand new pioneer se 505 headphones [...]

the pain is gone along with her wisdom but he made me laugh sometimes it hurt so much i had to give up laughing then came the change then came the great understanding it might take another thirty years or so probably more to get back even a little of what was never really there [...]