Favorite quote ....

I packed up and headed to the city of light,
To escape from pain and for thrills,
I walked around through the bottom of the ocean,
I took a deep breath and drank through my gills.

I figured I've posted enough dreary, depressing fucking shit to my journal & to this forum over time that I might as well post something else since I apparently have it in me deep down somewhere.

The following was written in a birthday card today to the woman I've been dating for about 11 months:

you are my hope, my dreams, my laughter, my tears,

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My plan is to wait for my company to lay me off which, if I were a betting woman, I'd say will likely happen between now and next March/April ( Read more... )

( relationships )

( the no-christmas christmas )

( man's search for meaning )

(  boring / thoughts of a girl )

I really love this one so thought I'd share ... it's called "the poem", by contemporary American poet named Charles Simic.

every morning i forget how it is.
i watch the smoke mount
in great strides above the city.
I belong to no one.

then, i remember my shoes,
how i have to put them on,
how bending over to tie them up
i will look into the earth

(  eyes )

(  favorite quote )