tags: goodbyes
2013
October
- 2013 Oct 5
- the last days of sunlight
One day shall come a dawn where I do not see the sunset
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a summer after which I need not endure the autumn
my last memories will be of the hot breath of the Santa Ana winds
and the acrid reek of smoke from the raging wildfires
and bright sunlight without end.
Until we meet again, my friend. - 2013 Oct 5
- it's all bullshit
I could be coping better. This is not going well at all.
· Read more… - 2013 Oct 5
- life. don't talk to me about life.
I'm sitting here in the dark, totally drunk, recounting my failures and losses. There are a lot of places where it went totally wrong, but I find myself lingering on one of the milestones that I choose to remember. A. I loved you in my fashion. But that is neither here nor there.
· Read more… - 2013 Oct 6
- who's going to watch you die
I think the worst part about watching death—even just the death of an ill-tempered and anxious dog who lived a long life of almost 15 years, who had deteriorated to the point where he couldn't even stand up to take a drink of water or even to move out of his own filth—is that you know for a fact it's going to happen again and again, unless you happen to go first.
· Read more… - 2013 Oct 6
- some say because it's over
When my cousin died all of the sudden without warning about seven years ago just after we started reconnecting, I listened to this song a lot.
· Read more… - 2013 Oct 8
- grief
I'm totally getting the auditory hallucination thing that I've read some pet owners get.
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