I hear all these rumors about you. Trash lines up at my door just to bring me the news.

All it does is kind of make me wonder, why people so eager to be so cruel.

You say that the parties over. But like a drunken fool, I never know when to leave. It’s just that in the eyes of this beholder. You mean everything to me.

Cause when I look into your eyes. Our love shines… like a diamond mine.

Interesting and sophisticated.

Refusing to be celebrated.

It’s a monumental big screen kiss.

It’s so deep Its meaningless.

One day you’ll just up and quit.

And that will be it.

Just then the stripper stopped in a coughing fit, said, “Sorry I can’t go on with this…

Close, but that’s not why I’m so hard done by.

Sam Stone – John Prine

There’s a hole in Daddys arm, where all the money goes…

I followed the sound of a jukebox coming from up the levee.

All of a sudden I could hear someone whistling right behind me.

I turned around and she said. “Why do you always end up down at Nick’s Cafe?”

I said, “I don’t know. The wind just kinda pushed me this way.”

She said, “Hang the rich.”

We’re setting sail for a place on the map. From which no one has ever returned. Drawn by the promise of the Joker and the fool, and the light of the crosses that burn. Drawn by the promise of the women and the lace. And the gold and the cotton and pearls.

It’s the place where they keep all the darkness you need.

You sail away from the light of the world on this trip baby…

Blind Willie McTell… by Bob Dylan.

“God is in his heaven.

And we all want what’s his.

But Power and Greed and Corruptible Seed

Seems to be all that there is.”

My needs were small…

I wanted everything.

You are beautiful in a needy way.

I knew it would end in a disaster.

I couldn’t help myself.

I became emboldened.

You accepted until you didn’t.

We had so much growing to do…

So many questions.

So little time.

All apologies, Lorna.

My favorite line in any film is “Sell crazy somewhere else,we are all stocked up here.” The film is ‘As Good as it Gets. ‘

The opportunities to use this line in real life are so abundant that I feel I soon could be sued for copyright.

Which brings me to my complicated relationship with narcissim. It is not that I know very many. I don’t. However I see the signs in abundance and when I do, I immediately go to, “Sell crazy somewhere else…”

My circle is getting small.

I’ve been strolling in the gardens.

Where luxury has her way.

I have been granted life’s great pardons.

Where time and money are at play.

Fortune shines her glories.

I don’t know why or how.

There have been other stories.

But History has them now.

I like it here.

The baths are warm.

I have survived.

The I of storm.

There is a peace.

A quiet pause.

You had to leave.

The way it was.

The danger felt.

Well it was old.

A kind of curse.

Where blood is cold.

I like it here.

The baths are warm.

Spirits smiled.

Have taken form.