: About Me

....I have had a change of heart, my 57 year old heart and that is that I might surrender something about myself.I am homeless. I suffer from chronic depression and PTSD. I am heavily medicated, living in NE Ohio in a town that is slowly going to Hell...except for Football's HOF...trying my damndest to get the hell outta Dodge and back to Northern California...Napa Valley to be exact...before I am swallowed by the Beast that wanders the nearby Hood, chews people up, and spits out ghosts....Nostrovia

My passion is ...

the Northern California coast above Mendocino

I know too much about ...

The death of John Kennedy

My parents always told me ...

Never run with a chain saw

My childhood ambition ...

to retain my child like wonder at the world

My favorite memory ...

hasn't happened yet

Why I write ...

Ad hoc,ad hoc add sip pro quo,so little time,so much to know.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Sagan's last book, bad TV,Joan Baez,Judy Collins.

My first job ...

Trying to salt the tails of birds @ 5.(It worked.)

My best moment ...

Qualifying for the Olympic Trials on a relay team.

My inspiration ...

that the Sun Also Rises and life still goes on...for now

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Madness

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...swimming to the moon would be easier than loving her. Something inside her was broken and scattered; bare bones long since picked clean by the carrion birds of the capricious twentieth century now gone. When ,with me alone ,she showed the happy inner child, wrapped in bright ribbons of joy and wonder, chasing fireflys and moon beams and star light; sleeping deeply with always a smile. ...but when tasked to be with The Others, she shrank beneath the waves of herself. "Tell me about books I have never read", or "show me some place I have never been", or "tell me again the lies I know best...

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