Gird Your Lions and Guard Your Loins

The following is presented without comment cause, well, you’ll see when you read this.

The Way I Feel (to Leonard Cohen)

You were always familiar to me
Maybe cause you looked 
A bit like my grandpa
And you sang to Lorca lovers’ waltz

Self acceptance

or

Why do we worry about what other people think of us?

Will they like me?

Popularity, self-doubt and the gap we fall into between those two

Birthday Boy — A Love Story

An Ode to My Husband

Lottery

Death arrives
like a chill draft
in a creaking house,
when your name’s on the list
you can’t return to sender
or shift your position
to ward off…

The New Normal

It happens. Learn to live with it.
They will come and kill us.
Drive trucks on cycles.
Just a few vandals.
Go light some candles.
It…