close doors

CLOSE DOORS

you close doors
like it's your job
up and down
up and down
but what hides behind
those closed doors?
practicality
plays the principal
role
but today you've
got something
else on your
mind.
today the seas
have changed
and only
tomorrow will
we be at port.
Updates waiting.

2014 READS

thus far...

1. Asylum by Patrick McGrath
2. Talking God by Tony Hillerman
3. The Three Muskateers by Alexandre Dumas
4. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
5. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone by Tennessee Williams
6. The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
7. The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
8. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
9. It by Stephen King

updates pending

Hostility

It's more than hostility really
A limited lexicon could not venture to define it
the entire dictionary would come up short too
it's that brain swelling feeling
fighting back your reflexes
control. control. control.
you shouldn't feel this way
a sea of respect couldn't help you now
those days have long passed
all efforts to define the relationship are futile
futile.
they are futile. they are a cretin.
you just thought of this word today
it is your new favorite marker
they are a cretin
the perfect all encompassing monicker
now the guilt floods in
you shouldn't feel this way
this relationship demands respect
you are forever indebted
you will never separate yourself from them
but.
but how many bad qualities can a person take?
how much stagnation?
lack of drive?
but you have a lack of drive
the connection is deeper than you will ever understand
you don't want to understand
you will separate yourself from the truth
you will separate yourself from all of them