Quit
Her smile burns in my mind
Another reminder
Out of reach one last time
I quit
Too many setbacks, and failures sting
Always a reason or excuse or complication
So that if everyone has a someone
Clearly I am neither
Not everyone
Nor even someone
Just alone
Resigned
Copyright 2008
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Choosing the road less traveled; now where the hell am I?!
My Poems
- A Blogger
- A Cinquain
- A Fucking Poem
- A Mountainside Field In Maine
- Ablaze
- Accumulation
- Adrift
- Albatross
- All Good Things
- Altered
- Ambiguous
- An Ode To Sarah Palin
- Angel
- Another Cinquain
- Anxiety Attack
- Around Each Other
- Asleep
- Atlantic
- Barack
- Battles
- Below Surface
- Bennies
- Between The Rhyme
- Black Hole/Faith
- Black Swan
- Blanket
- Blanket
- Boardwalks To Walk No More
- Bobby
- Boo
- Book Covers
- Bounty of Cancer
- Brass Stand
- Breaking Of Dawn
- Broken
- Brushstrokes
- Bush's Mess
- Bush/Cheney
- Butt Why
- Cancer
- Carrousel
- Cell Out
- Chasing Rainbows
- Circling The Drain
- Cleanse
- Cliche Poet Voice
- Closer Look
- Coffee Ice Cream
- Contemplation
- Cords
- Corporatocracy
- Counsel
- Country 'Tis Of Thee
- Creation
- Criminally Right
- Cry Rain
- Cry Tears
- Damn, It's God
- Dandelions
- Dead Or Alive
- Dear John
- Demagoguery
- Demise
- Designer Dogs And Their Looney People
- Different Words
- Discomfort
- Diversionary Tactic
- Dream Dance
- Dreaming Of Mr. Rogers
- Dreams
- Dry
- Dubya
- Eat
- Ends
- Ephemeral
- Escape From Newark
- Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
- Evil's Triangle
- False Portrayals
- Fanatics
- Fear And Hate Is Jesusland
- Fear Or Pleasure
- Feline
- Festivus
- Fill In The Blank
- Flexible Thinking
- Fool
- Freedom and Justice
- Fresh
- Fresh
- Frida
- Fuller View
- Further From Heaven
- Games Of Toss
- Gardot
- George Bush Is An Asshole
- Georgie's Dick
- Ghost
- Girl With A Pearl Earring
- Glances
- Gone
- Grand Canyon
- Guarantee
- Hall of Mirrors
- Honeysuckle
- I'm An Accountant
- If A Promise
- In The Arms Of
- Incitement
- Incongruous
- Insanity
- Jackson
- Jersey Shore
- Jerusalem
- Killer Cows From Kansas City
- Kisses Wishes
- Labor Pains
- Lakeside
- Layers
- Lazy Summer
- LeBron Can Suck It
- Legacy
- Lies Behind The Smirk
- Life Is Still There
- Life Of A Leaf
- Light In The Tunnel
- Little Boy
- Little Things Lost
- Lost
- Love Of Life
- Loved Ones
- Making Love
- Man On The Can
- Maniacal Masses
- Mark Levin Popped A Blood Vessel
- Memorial (Every) Day
- Meow
- Mind The Eagle
- Mirage
- Mirror Talk
- Moments
- Mommy's Song
- Monsters
- Muffler
- Music
- My Father's Son
- My Poem
- Nameless
- Native
- Neda
- Nightfall
- Nightwalker (Wolf)
- Nothing
- Nothing Gets Better
- Now This Is Writer's Block
- Oasis
- Of The Waterfall
- Old Friend
- On The Twelfth
- Opposite Effect
- Ostriches
- Outside In
- Pacific Standard Time
- Paralysis
- Passion To Hate
- Pavilion's Thought
- Penned
- Places I'm Going
- Pocono Mountain Morning
- Poetry's Rainbow
- Pointless Pretending
- Prevention
- Puget Sound Orcas
- Quick Burning Candle
- Quit
- RSVP
- Raining Words
- Red Molly
- Remembrance
- Republicans
- Revelation
- River
- Rockies
- Role Model
- Round Pegs
- Sandpeople
- Sculptured Garden
- September 11
- Settings
- Seuss Love
- Shades
- Shadows
- She Is All That
- She Said No (Rape)
- Shepherd
- Silence
- Sisters and Brothers
- Small Part
- Someone
- Soothing
- State Of The Union
- Stirred
- Storms
- Storyteller
- Streets
- Take Out The Trash (Or George Bush's Term Ends)
- Tea
- Teabaggers
- Tears
- Terrorism
- The Black And White Cookie
- The Bush Doctrine
- The Hope And The Glory
- The Hours
- The Next
- The Rain
- The Way The Mind Of A Right Wingnut “Thinks” However Many Facts Call Into Question Every Untruth They Attempt To Mindlessly Spread
- The Winter Of Our Discontent
- Three Thousand (Dedicated to George W. Bush)
- Time Running
- Timshel (East Of Eden)
- To Be Continued
- Tree Pollen
- Trek
- Trial For Error
- Tumult
- Twisted
- Twisted Tree
- Two A.M. Hairball
- Unfurled
- Vase
- Violence
- Violet
- WHITE House
- Wandering
- War On Christmas
- Watching
- We Are The Enemy
- Where
- Whirl
- Whole
- Wind
- Wind Bag
- Winds Of Change
- Winds, Storms, Water
- Winter
- Winter's Sky
- World Stripped Away
- Write A Poem
- You
- da Costa
More of My Poems
- Broken
- Burr: Misunderstood American
- Chui
- Clusterfuck
- Fascist
- Fascist's Dupes
- Fools' Day
- Kenya
- Milk and Honey
- Patterns
- Q Is For Crazy
- Racists' Different Names
- Random Kenya
- Resilience
- Right Wing
- Sally's Voice
- Squirrel
- The Girl With M.S.
- The Haagen Dazs Coffee Ice Cream Poem
- Theorize
- This Is Not America
- Trump
- Trump Mindset
- Weathered
My Cancer Stories
About Me
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- Abbie Gardner (Musician)
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- April Smith and the Great Picture Show (Musician)
- Danny White (Musician and thirdbaseman)
- Empty Void
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- Vienna Teng (Musician)
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- Abbie Gardner - Honey On My Grave (Music)
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- American Sniper (Movie)
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- April Smith - Revenge Of The Brunette (Music)
- Barack Obama - Dreams Of My Father (Book)
- Batman: The Dark Knight (Movie)
- Blackbird (Broadway)
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- Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (Music)
- Brokeback Mountain (Movie)
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- Doris Kearns Goodwin - Team Of Rivals (Book)
- Finding Neverland (Movie)
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- George Wirth - Live and "The Lights of Brigantine" (Music)
- George Wirth - Memorial Drive (Music)
- George Wirth - The Last Good Kiss (Music)
- Go Set A Watchman - Harper Lee (Novel)
- Hamilton (Broadway)
- Happy Feet (Movie)
- Hotel Rwanda (Movie)
- It's Just Sex (Play)
- Janey Todd (Music)
- Jon Lee Anderson - Che Guevara - A Revolutionary Life (Book)
- Juanita Yoder - Silk Painting (Artist)
- Juanita Yoder - Silk Painting (Artist)
- Khaled Hosseini - And The Mountains Echoed (Book)
- Khalid Hosseini - The Kite Runner (Book)
- Kristin Gore - Sammy's Hill (Book)
- Lauren Hart - 5 Lifetimes (Music)
- Maria Full Of Grace (Movie)
- Melissa Donovan - Engineered Underground (Book)
- Melody Gardot - Worrisome Heart (Music)
- Memento (Movie)
- Million Dollar Baby (Movie)
- Molly Venter - Love Me Like You Mean It (Music)
- Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Movie)
- Mulholland Drive (Movie)
- Munich (Movie)
- Nancy Isenberg - Fallen Founder - The Life Of Aaron Burr (Book)
- Once (Broadway)
- One More Thing; Stories and Other Stories - BJ Novak (Book)
- Philip Roth - The Plot Against America (Book)
- Rating The Presidents
- Ray (Movie)
- Red Molly - 4 Song EP (Music)
- Red Molly - Clinch River Blues (Music)
- Red Molly - Never Been To Vegas (Music)
- Red Molly Live (Music)
- Required Reading List
- Ron Chernow - Hamilton (book)
- Run Lola Run (Movie)
- Sarah Gardner (Musician)
- Sarah Vowell - Assassination Vacation (Book)
- Selma (Movie)
- Sideways (Movie)
- Star Wars Episode Three (Movie)
- The Martin Blondes (Music)
- The Pacifier (Movie)
- The Pierces - Light Of The Moon
- The Squid And The Whale (Movie)
- The West Wing (Television)
- Tina Vero - 4 Song EP (Music)
- Tina Vero Live (Music)
- Vienna Teng Live (Music)
- Vote For Change Concert (Music)
- Vote For Change Final Concert (Music)
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5 comments:
This makes me very sad.
This makes me very sad.
i quit about three years ago... either i have totally masochistic taste in men,,, or i am a freak... either way,, it never works....
I met Kev through a telephone date. I'm convinced I'd be a nun right now if I hadn't. (I was 32 at the time).
Kat
P.S. How's Boo?
32 came and went a long time ago for me.
Boo is his usually self - running the show here!
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