Facing Beginnings & Endings
I think it is best to learn how to face & save face with these since they follow me like clock hands searching time.
I am surfeit in my pleasures: bread & butter for breakfast, delayed coffee…Boy Howdy! Belly warm & feet comfy, music to one side & an open window with a breeze to the other.
Where will I be a year from now? I don’t know, I just feel the leverage of life prying me loose. Maybe I can find a writer’s camp to work in…but it all starts here. How will I change? I’ll need to be in a bigger town if I’m going. Or out in the desert far from anything but cactus, hopefully with hot water & indoor plumbing.
What I see once again is possibility opening to bid me enter. I want to celebrate with others & write about it. There is much catching up for writing – my proof of life.
What do I want? To laugh, to be respected, to be relied upon, to care for others who will, in turn, care for me. Sad to abandon the thought of being loved, left on the side of the rode like a suitcase I can no longer sit on with my thumb out.
These are best guesses in this moment & unreliable. I’m not really sure overall.
From the specific to the general…whole populations are moving. Will there be another Great Resettlement? Will America become an ideal again in terms of all of us leaving for a “better place.”
I am gone again. Time to go smaller & less populous? Or be alone in a city? I find I’m content in my own company on good days. It’s at night when the shadows crowd ‘round & I realize I’m not enough for myself anymore.
I thought I had created a refuge here. Pressing words into sentences is my favorite but cannot be my only pastime.
My finger’s on the trigger. Where is the gun pointed?