right now there’s ringing in my ears, and besides that the drip ofthe cat’s water fountain and the hum, perhaps, of a water heater,and i want none of those sounds, i want silence unless it’s somethingi’ve been wanting to hear. i want to travel to florida and see my friend Todd, i want to hear thedull roar of a plane cruising at altitude, i want him to hear his eggscrackling...
here you are. you had one foot over the fence and now here you are. no more of that painful limbo, no more wondering “what will happenthat will make him leave again?” even if you are the one to facilitate the leaving.set it and forget it, you tell yourself. you get what you get and you don’t get upset. if you start to stray into thoughts that cause you fear,remember the times...
no matter what it looks like when things finally get shook up and then settle down, I will be here by your side.I will be the one who keeps loving you and loving youand showing you love, and no one can possibly say wedeserve anything worse than this, or anything more than this.there are plenty of people in this world I could have met and made a makeshift life with, I would...
Two years ago, right around now, I was supposed to be going to Maine for a writer’s retreat led by my favorite living poet. That didn’t end up happening because I didn’t find a job by then and I was rapidly running out of money. I had to take the refund when I had the chance and save all the money I would have spent on hotels and gas and...
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And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom or loneliness?
