Tag: relationships
Three of a Kind
For Faith and Praise I remember sitting at the make-up table in our room writing goodbye letters to mummy, daddy, and each of you, interrupted every now and then by a tear which would spill out until it finally gave way to something like a crying-out-loud – It sounds silly Read more
[for Milad:]
the last time we spoke, you demanded why I had not called you back (and in doing so, answered your own question) perhaps you simply feared losing a kindred soul in a city that devours but I, who had packed my Gypsy wagon countless times, and begun anew, chafed at Read more
Dear Steven
Dear Steven, I know I owe you some kind of response but I am at a loss for words. Yeah, me Wordless. I left our conversation without answering because I was blown. away. You were a first love. A part of me will always love you. Yes, reconnecting has reminded Read more
Unexplained Presence
You say what you need to say You do what’s expected Yet there’s this presence I can’t escape You touch like you’re supposed to You love like requested Yet move like you’re caged You beg me to stay, you plead for me to trust. Yet, I see a shadow lurking, Read more
“Hi, My Name is Tom”
Hi, my name is Tom, (or Dick, or Harry). I just turned seventy and I’m alone in life. I’m in great shape, except that my fears of commitment have hardened like another man’s arteries. I guess that’s the Big C that I’m afraid of. I had several great girlfriends, but Read more
When I Was Twenty-One
Our eyes met across the smoke filled bar The Boss playing on repeat on an 80’s jukebox I was a big girl doing shots Laughing, dancing and singing with my girls Not a care in the world or one fuck’s sake In my short skirt, ripped tank, fishnets and combat Read more
For Better of Worse
It was a Sunday when the new recliner flew off the Ford, Daddy having failed to latch the tailgate before he roared onto the southbound, following a semi and an argument with Mother on the finer points of the Sabbath. Sunday is a day for rest, not a day for Read more