The poets plight to paint or write…

Isn’t really a plight at all.

It’s the madness of everyday 9 to 5

That’s the saddest plight of all.

To take the time from love and life.

While loathing what you do.

I remember the time I can’t forget

Tis art that got us through.

Dennis Mantin

A concept at best!

What folly. What nonsense. Who was capable?

Certainly none we knew.

I will admit I tried and now that romantic relationships are truly over for me… I see now the error of my ways.

I thought honesty was a virtue and not the deterrent that it obviously is and oh how I stood alone on that island, pointing my judgmental fingers at you lot.

No more Motherf@#kers…

Y’all are off the hook with my apologies!Dennis Mantin

Don’t know your motivation.

You’ve been fed bad information. Can’t speak to your frustration. Guess an ancient situation. Do you know how you go got that stain? I get it that you like pain.

Is that your motivation?

You love it when you say no. You love me cause you say so. When I touch you I see tears flow. Say goodbye because I don’t know. Going crazy is a no go.

Don’t know your motivation.

Dennis Mantin

She said, “He has absolutely no sex appeal… not a tattoo, nothing. Zero… nothing to offer whatsoever.”

I hadn’t a clue who she was referring to. I just knew it wasn’t me; but still I stared at my Nova Scotia mapped tartan tat to make sure it was still there. I winked at the Vitruvian Man with the head of Homer Simpson and I bit my tongue. Not fucking really, just a figure of speech; cause what I really wanted to say was:

“Who in the name of the baby Jesus is going to show a flirtatious fun sex appeal side of themselves in this environment of political correct victims r us nightmare? Certainly not anyone I know…”

Dennis Mantin

I wondered for just a breathe, if I had made it all up… the pain and suffering.

Then I remembered…

I don’t believe in fiction mainly because I wasn’t allowed to tell lies.

More accurately there were great consequences for telling lies. Beatings and the like.

I learned to take my licks. The last one I just stood there and took it stone faced; staring down each blow like some badge of honor. No fuck you mother!

I more than made up for lost time in the lying department, and am just now giving myself permission to write fiction.

Dennis Mantin

It used to be something else.

Something more carnal, or chemical.

Now its a book.

To learn something I don’t know!

Pictures are not required, however maps and diagrams are perfectly acceptable; all are here.

There are so many however this is the latest by Graham Hancock, America Before.

Dennis Mantin

Mr Johnson strolls down Queen Street Greeting those he meets like a politician kissing babies, armed with the gift of remembering everyone’s name…

“Mr Filmore, good morning!”

“Mr Johnson. ”

“Mr Francesco.”

Mr Francesco isn’t saying much today. He seems to be concentrating on the ramblings of the old woman who’s taken up residence in the bus shelter. She screams, “Bigshot!” at the drivers of the cars who pass by. She’s seems angry that they’ve wasted their youth hoarding gold.

Steve’s friend suggests to what he calls the best blow job in Parkdale that she ply her trade elsewhere.

The neighborhood is a lively little microcosm this morning.

Me?

I’ll just go to work and leave the neighborhood to Mr Johnson to greet and meet.

Dennis Mantin

I meant it as a joke.

I laughed.

The sorrow my joy can bring!

I guess when it’s as easy as shooting fish in a barrel then maybe I should put governors on the Sarcastic One?

Is that what you’re suggesting?

Dennis Mantin

She said, ” Tell me a story about when you were a kid. :”

I had told her all that I wanted to or had. I just didn’t want to say that.

” I want to make new story. New story with you… I think I told you all there is to tell about back there and then. :”

It seemed strange that say…

Have I finally walked away from whatever that was?

Dennis Mantin

The physical world is easy because our senses tell us that this is real.

The spiritual not so much.

The financial is truly what’s easy to meditate on. The mental is a toss up dependent on the individual or moment. The emotional is dominant in the mental world and just as flawed. These are the 5 features that make up this human experience.

The physical world of man made technology and innovation has separated us from the spiritual, but the spiritual world is there, connecting and binding it all…

Dennis Mantin