Dennis Mantin

I hadn’t heard or seen this term before 2019 and now I see it so often that it feels made up…

Social media public Figure??

No criteria required!

Ability to stare into a phone camera is an apparent must.

Some nudity will enhance status!

I feel history will not be kind to the current crop of self identified public Figures…

Dennis Mantin

Tit for tat

Butter for fat

You killed my dog

I’ll kill your cat.

A hat on a hat

That tit for tat

No gains, all loss

That this for that.Dennis Mantin

Dennis Mantin

I lack the desire for power.

Mainly due to the shit pile one would have to wade through to acquire it…

And for what?

In the beginning I had desires for something more with no clues as to how.

Now I see that as a gift.

The gift of having the time to observe humanity from the perch of humble nothingness.

Now to be one of many, a face in the crowd, smiling, contented, rich beyond my wildest dreams.

For I have had this time with you my love.

Dennis Mantin

That opaque interlude of childhood is far behind us.

Worn and tattered and splayed by uneven, unreliable memory…

Spread thin until it’s meaningless, no flavor, no substance…

Just unrelenting nonsense that needs to be stared down; gone but not forgotten.

We are in the heart of meaning NOW!! Standing, pacing, one step in front of the other, dealing with what needs be…

Maybe the opaque is required… maybe we need to grow before we can see behind that curtain and roll into the arms of Angel’s.

Dennis Mantin

There was darkness in the shadows…

I found you taking comfort there.

It wasn’t much to look at,

But it was hard to see.

I swear I saw you kneeling,

Was that you on bended knee?

Were you asking for forgiveness?

Or just speaking to a friend?

We all want to hedge our bets.

In the shadows near the end.

Dennis Mantin

Dennis Mantin

old dog learns new tricks… story at the top of the hour!

strange like the unicorn apparently are we who continue to learn into adulthood.

i have had it drummed into from such an early age of how little I knew that learning new strategies is an addiction.

Dennis Mantin

I have personal knowledge of people who throw around words like spirituality and gratitude, who are the least spiritual and seemingly know nothing of gratitude… their actions are greedy, fearful and selfish.

I feel empathy towards them for their ignorance and lacking in self knowledge must be burdensome and deep down at some level… they must know they aren’t what they claim to be?

Dennis Mantin