Thursday, May 19, 2016

4.30.16 A surfeit of emotion


As I grow, and grow older, only not do I begin to see that,
 biochemistry controlled for, moods so often are simply 
a surfeit of emotions and experiences, stockpiled, 
built up and backed up, until it is of no use 
and they must all flood on in.

4.30.16 Into May

Even now, as we find ourselves
caught up in other things, still here

the day trundles, absolute, along into May.

4.30.16 Here

 beneath the brash beautiful skies
we find ourselves, replete with 
our brash beautiful lives.


 

4,30,16 There was a club. You were a member. And shit just happens



My whole life, I was crazy to have children.
 I would've had them, no matter what. 
I would have raised and cared for somebodies any bodies of any kind. 
When you're raised in a family of seven kids,anything over a three kids family is big. 

I raised my four little brothers, with  help from my big brother. 
My youngest sibling, a sister, I didn't get to know. 
Or I would've wanted to care for her too.

The funny thing is that having kids is not obligatory. Or essential.
Oh, it's nuts and exhausting and one of the sweetest things in life. 
It's surprising and disappointing . 

And shocking and I'm guessing that every single person who 
goes into it is operating under that weird assumption 
that they're going to do it right. 

None of those disasters or problems or challenges that befall others 
will ever befall them. Because they will be doing it so right. 

It's membership in the club that you don't even know exists, 
until you're like maybe 50 or 60, and then if you've had kids, 
or you're close to somebody who did, you watch the realization dawn. 

That wasn't reality. 
There was a club. 
You were a member. 
And shit just happens



4.29.16 Yearning for happier

Things to eat and drink and do and use and have 
and get and own and hold don't make us happier. 

They simply make us forget for those minute moments 
of eating and drinking and doing and using and having 
and getting and owning and holding 

that we are hanging around in our lives, 
looking and wanting and keening 
and yearning for happier.