Carpe Vinum [poetry]
Trying to write, to pull thoughts out of my head and voice them… Give them Life… but my brain is stuck in neutral – sitting idly with monotony… I need to find My Muse. Or drink. Maybe both. In vino vertias.
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Distraction: Let Go or be Dragged
I am very distracted today. I cannot seem to focus on my writing that I came here to work on – all I want to do is sit here and people watch in this coffeehouse that has become my home every Saturday. From the cute little college alterna-chicks in their funky outfits to the group of men bicyclists that just walked in, dressed in their tight-in-all-the-right-places biker shorts. It’s a cacophony of visual and aural delights. Yes indeed, today is all about distraction from my writing projects.…
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Normal.
Normality is conformity But what is normal? This is all I can recall off the top of my head of a poem I wrote back in high school. Unfortunately, my poems and writings from those days are forever lost on a 5 1/4” floppy disk formatted to the classic Macintosh computers of the late 1980’s. I wrote that poem in response to Mom-ster, along with the administrators and select teachers in high school that tried to get me to be “normal” and conform to their standards. I knew…
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