Do you know how I ache, with you lying beside me? Do you know how I ache, without you here beside me? Your breath Last breath Slowing Exhaled Sinking into the warmth of the night To rise into the sterile morning Flesh against flesh Flesh now cooling Your feet Weeping As you run into your …
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Fool’s Gold
I never felt comfortable within my own skin until thirty, maybe not even then. My childhood dream was simple: survive high school as a closeted gay nerd living in the country, move to Toronto, and cut all ties to my life prior. Having absorbed all the Disney fairy-tales, the basis of my plan was that …
faults & traits & madness
I remember when my cousin came to stay for a week, and on Saturday night we were watching “The Littlest Hobo”. I had been reading in the StarWeek tv guide magazine that very day that there were several dogs used as the Hobo on any given episode. When C said “boy, that’s a smart dog”, …
Fruits of the devil
Though there were always dogs on the farm when I grew up, the 1.1 lbs dustbunny was really my first dog. I had a beautiful black german shepherd for all of one week, but the rest of my housemates proved to be allergic, including my at that time, other half, whose dog it really was. …