December 2009
5 posts
It would be so easy
It would be so easy to forget the things in life that we should be grateful for. It would be so easy to sleep until late in the afternoon. Shut the lights. Turn off the phone. Forget to return the phone calls of the ones who love us the most. Dwell on the relationships that we do not have and mourn the ones we have lost. It would be so easy to think “I can’t. I won’t. It...
An Inconvenient Truth
We sat on the couch, post coitus. Silent. Not touching. I had on my favorite grey fleece robe. He sat on my tan sueded couch in only his boxer shorts. None to my pleasure. I have a thing against stains.
TVs on. Who knows what we’re watching. sports, a sit-com, the evening news? Then a commercial comes on and I say, ”Hey, let’s go see a movie next weekend.”...
"Well, after I lost you....."
In my much younger years, I partied way too hard. (Well not that much younger). Often times starting out the evening with friends, then somewhere along the way losing them in the fray. We started a trend of meeting up the morning after for breakfast. Over coffee and cigarettes we would recount our individual evenings of debauchery and mayhem. Each story beginning with “well after I lost...