Category Archives: Personality

About Company

I’ve always liked my solitude, it’s true,but I’ve my room and nothing much forbidsme spending time with others – 2, 2, 2 –my parents once, my brothers, and my kids.I have relationships that do me good,and maybe that’s why I … Continue reading

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Floor Plans

I woke too early but I stayed in bed.From 5 to 6, I hunkered down some more.I planned the daily tasks and thought insteadof dreaming, clocked the light through window door,and then let floor plans cycle through my headfrom houses … Continue reading

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Spoons

Eleven spoons I pilfered over yearsof monthly lunches with two business friends.I had no use for them and it appearsI won’t employ them for ingestive ends.I think the tabs were mine – my conscience clearswith certainty my tipping made amends.Reviewing, … Continue reading

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Privacy

Succeeding 15 days of black-and-white,when paths were clear and absent shades of gray,and vacillation didn’t nudge despiteuncertain moments and a somber sway,I turned to sleep last night with appetitefor solitude I’ll satisfy today.We did the needful; now I look withinto … Continue reading

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Stranger Words

She made my day, I murmured as I turned.I know the stranger heard me anyway.She’d volunteered a comment and I learnedshe made my day. She spoke. I thanked. And she went on to say,“It’s easy when it’s true.” I’m not … Continue reading

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Not Happening

So many prophecies – all incorrect.“When you mature you’ll want to drive, to shop.”I don’t know why my intimates expectmy rational reluctances to stop.I study me and cannot recollectoccasions when I registered a dropin my aversions. So they say I’ll … Continue reading

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Receiving

My resolutions tend to flow top-down,but this snuck up and now surprises me.What bubbles from my belly to my crown,and there takes root and grows emphatically,is wishful learning from proximity.I will receipt from neither film nor book.A fact from someone … Continue reading

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The Skeptic’s Optimism

I ought to be a pessimist, and yetmy serotonin levels must be high.I’ve never been depressed, and blue moods getbrief tenancy in me. Oh I can cryat tragedy, and worries may besetthat loved ones won’t prevail at what they try.But … Continue reading

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And Then

No sooner am I home than I depart –a scanty sixteen hours, half in bed,are all I get before engagements start,and what ensues are five days out insteadof that for which I yearn. But I won’t dreadthe interruptions – they’re … Continue reading

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Homing

Today I travel home, by car to planeto train to bus, and then a little more –I’ll walk perhaps two blocks and I’ll obtainthe sanctuary that’s inside my door.I’ll carry dirty clothes and the refrainof fellowship with family, beforeI settle … Continue reading

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