Secret Final Boss

This was the very definition of PRIVATE.
This is only for me.
But you violated even that.
I want to feel sympathetic for you, but this time is not so easy.

Move Along

Patching it up, "Goodnight"

I kissed her -  needing that time away

and deep down, here it is (the real me)

so feeble

I was caught at once - vulnerable

reaching out to long ago, where the grass grew up to my thigh

dirt roads

things like that

It came to me, all of it.

My grandfather, how regal he wore his Stetsons  

My grinning dog Bandit, capturing the shoes of our new neighbors 

My Yaya, stubbornly navigating floorboards with a paint-bucket walker

My naievete, how I took this all in stride

like it could never be gone forever

Nature Boy Requiem

down in the breaks again

country boy in a cold alley,

right out of the movies

displaced

with a kiss on the lips

and a memory in the head

tonight i will stumble over the hardwood floor again

toasts all around

unorthodox, shooting it to death

til it's dead

a bloody mess on the ground

forgotten and over with

finally