Ponderable polemics, poetic

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the future

  • Inheritances

    This is a dark time for many Americansamong the more somber of my lifehopefulness has trouble finding any sort of foothold, sense of balanceMonths away from retirement I already see the tarnish descending on my planned golden yearssitting in a recliner with my feet up letting others take up the resistance just doesn’t sit well Read more

  • Distance

    The expanse is self-inflicted a self-exiled expatriate; I am here, not there answered a calling, have since done my best at least pretty well considering restraints with which I had to work sometimes I feel my work here done my time here over needed elsewhere, so I try to believe but the work here is Read more

  • Vexing thesaurus

    Forever is an ugly word Inspiring, enticing, incorrigible promise and implications immense execution uncertain, incomplete Forever is overly simplistic hopeless realization intoxicates a siren-like, self-coaxing impossibility mocking, scornful of your naiveté Forever is an ugly word gracefully benign until practiced; its only relationship to reality is its ultimate, untimely, predictable demise Read more