“It’s tearing me up Ma all these rejection letters are getting piled up on my counter from everywhere I sent my work to and they all come back to me with illegible red ink glaringly scrawled across them which no one in their right mind can read so how am I supposed to know how to make them better?”
I could hear the sarcasm dripping from her voice over the crackling phone line “I’m sure you will be crying me a river about these rejections when you have your first book published until then buck up and grow a backbone.”
A (k)night in shining a(r)mour
With eerie eyes closed,
I assure myself of my
impressive invincibility.
Still waiting for you to
profoundly puncture
the audacity of my
armour.
Echo.
I feel my teeth try to bite the wall while i silently scream.
I love her.
Raincheck
Ok, I said we should take a raincheck.
I didn’t mean for us to have this ten-year drought!
Sorting
Yesterday, as a group we spent the whole day sorting ideas into categories.
Today we’re going to work out what to do with the overflowing smug box.
A Moment
” You know that I love you, right,” I breathed out, looking at my wife with what a I hoped was a agreeable smile.
” No, husband,” my wife replied, a smile crossing her face in answer,” you’re not hanging out with your friends at the bar, watching the Super Bowl…”
Supermodel
She was a butt supermodel but she quit.
She always smell fart after the photo shoot.
Advice
I have advice for when you happen to buy a dog.
If the breed is GIANT FIRE-BREATHING Border Collie, don’t just assume that is the pet store being all clever and funny to sell dogs.
Lady, please move!
He stood there at the bar in great pain staring at the back of her beautiful long red hair, desperate to get her attention but the noise from the rock band being so deafening it prevented any conversation, leaving him no recourse but to forcefully shove her away from him.
Now that his foot was freed from underneath her bar stool, he could begin making his apologies.
Alien Lovers
His name was not a sound it was an idea, somewhere between orange and warmth with hints of sincerity, kindness and reliability. Until this time he had been alone but now there was another and together they slipped across the landscape, scavenging at times, at others simply rejoicing in each other’s company.
Purpose
“These worldly desires are a trap,” said the hermit and travelled far in search of purpose.
Debts paid and children fed – his wife had found hers.
Life
Life is a journey so fierce, yet so exciting that one can not comprehend with what struggles may be waiting ahead.
That is why we must remember; desserts is stressed spelt backwards.
Sour Apples
He wanted to be like Lennon, which made me McCartney, I guess. We never needed George or Ringo – nor, as it turned out, Yoko.
Cowboy
You change so gradually you can’t distinguish the individual steps.
First up you buy a silver belt buckle and then four years later people in your neighbourhood just refer to you as “the Cowboy”.
Honey?
She started saying to me “At 9:09, I’m gonna do something that won’t hurt me, but it will hurt you.” I woke up panting, relieved it was a dream, but the clock read 9:08, my wife woke up.
Fear
A lone figure stands, unmoving atop a bridge. She reaches for the rails, and places one leg over, the rhythm of her heart blaring in her ears.
Founder
Man I can swim so well now that I keep hoping for a boat to founder and then we have to swim back to the shore and then you’ll think I’m awesome!
Want to come out on my Grandfather’s totally safe not old at all boat with me?
Thank God for ivy
This old wood fence needs fresh paint; but, ah, the ivy begins its gentle climb. Maybe the paint can wait.
Future
A flicker of the future for you.
A dim light, a soft bed, a weak tea.
Death bed
A husband is sitting at his wife’s death bed holding her hand while she is under the influence of morphine and she is mad, not knowing who the person is, because she cannot open her eyes but hears and feels his touch. After ten minutes her anger subsides and gives way to fantasy that the person holding her hand is a childhood love who has come to say good-bye.