I’ve not been generous enough with my struggles.
I mean, it’s time to let you all in.
You all need to understand what it’s like to grow something, to build something.
I think.
Because I think there’s a lot more of you out there.
Folks like me.
We want to write someday, but it’s just so hard to keep wanting it.
So, how can I help you keep wanting it?
I ask myself.
I do not know the answer
I only know that I want it today
And the hunger feels good
and I want everyone to feel this hunger
Because it is the hunger that drives you forward
It is the hunger that causes you to conquer and kill.
Let’s be killers, together.
Poetry
100 years
1920’s…prohibition…flappers/’rebellion’
1930’s…depression/despair…WWII on horizon/cause to unite (A generation of hard, earnest, folks.)
1940’s…decade of WWII (a cause to unite)…(2nd generation of hard, earnest, folks.) … baby BOOM!
1950’s – suburbs/we have arrived
60’s – The Draft…hippies/’rebellion’
1970’s…disco…WAR ON DRUGS/rock bottom
80’s – (WaR oN dRUgS) corporate culture/chase that cheese
90’s (war on drugs)-grunge music/’rebellion’
2000 – (rebellion)-*BLACKOUT*
2010 – *wakes up* (rebellion)’I’M FReE!’
Indulges in parental leave and $5 coffees… Creates reality in which playing video games all day is a legit career option. Still not satisfied… still searching…
2020 – “Jesus is the answer…what was the question?”