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Category: Depression: mild

  • Fight for Your Rights, Grace Needs a Vacay

    there are no promises that can be kept by gift we live by right we die grace is optional except when it’s not the grace to bear grief is sometimes always never the only prayer there is in these hot, breathless last days, it’d do us to get on with the praying sooner than later

  • Black Party Invite

    I do not let tears well That will come later After the worst Whatever it is Always goes one way or the other There will be a ring Strangers will answer I said it’s time for tragedy And one is here Listen.

  • return to form

    a return to form says the review in the paper as if today has a bearing on some yesterday long forgotten the form is beside the point the return a curse rewritten something tired and already said a return a rerun a curse rewritten and best left unread

  • Hot Fence

    I stand on my feet all day hard on my luck I walk to the perimeter of my existence sometimes to get away from it all the long days stretch out like the green fields beyond the wire But the wire wins every time.

  • Fate of Fire

    who would choose the fate of fire the apathy of plunge blade for blood in the face of death some of us shine brighter as if destruction was our calling in life

  • Anthology

    A word, self-righteous angel If you write the Anthology of You There are consequences Demon-meaning In essence It’s time to drink down the medicine: If you play with Ouija Don’t complain about the smell of dead people

  • failing

    my heart is going slowly now it gave a good go of it beating and all those moments of bitter retreat ebb and flow of blood coming in and out of spite until slowly now the organ is engorged swollen, dying of itself pumping painfully ruefully spasming giving a good go of it slowly now

  • The Environmentalist

    An environmentalist college professor that he was told me It’s called climate change, not global warming Some places get colder I’m getting colder My seas are rising and my summers are shortening The end of summer came a month earlier each year, 2008-2010 August -> July -> June 2008 -> 2009 -> 2010 Next year,…

  • Down to the Quick

    In Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now,” one of the lyrics goes, “oh I’d rather feel something than nothing at all.” Well, then. Clearly, they’ve never felt the peace of feeling nothing at all because although not a pleasant experience, if you can get that numb, it’s something that one really would prefer at times, especially…

  • Taming the Irrational

    I am consistent. I at least have that going for me. I have a thing for buying high heels that are too tall for me. I have a thing for inappropriateness. I tell myself that I will wear them in my house to break them in, learn how to walk in them, and firm my…