Funny

I am the perfect substitute, stand-in, back-up plan, second choice.

For all of you---friend, lover, foe.

Nothing ever changes.

I do this to myself, I suppose.

Funny, but I'm tired of laughing.

how to say?

I don't know what I want.

But I want.

Unrequited

Silence and denial will be my newest friends.
Quietly, I'll destroy my tangled web, dissolving in my hands,
it's a quick end for me to walk away.

The weather

Darkness weeps happy all over me.


Someone smiled at me today.
Someone on these smileless streets of Seattle smiled at me.
He oozed the perfume of liquor...
But I'll take what I can get.