boarding house
$200 a week
blow through $4K in a month instead
and now it's rehab in another psych ward

3 hots and a cot
you got a lot
of nerve

i've got boxes full of your crap
and now your family has them too
we've all got pieces of you
as we all watch you fall to pieces

you got a lot of them
can the cot hold them all?

do I care?
i guess I do
because I still have
these pieces of you

to pick up
and sweep away
hoping for
a better day

for all of us

3 hots and a cot
is all you got
and it's all you ever wanted

i wanted so much more

If none of the sources of our energy are working, why keep working?

What was so wrong with claiming some land and working it instead of claiming to work and grabbing land and calling that landing some work?

If someone can no longer afford a room in a boarding house, how can they afford a psych ward if they have no insurance?

Is a psych ward safer than prison?  Each provides 3 hots and a cot, and a roof over one's head, but who ends up paying for it, and who really gains from it if a lesson is not learned?

If one is born of two Republicans and becomes a Liberal, is one a throwback, or a throwforward?

If a woman who's been seeking out "Daddy" all her life suddenly starts falling for guys 10 years younger than herself, does this mean she's grown up, or grown old?

Lastly, how many more cabinet members does Barack have to appoint before we get bored about it?

Oh, wait, that wasn't last:  Anyone who can get me the Tim Curry version of Joni Mitchell's "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire" wins a kiss when they meet me in DC next month.

Hillary, Dijamo, I owe you both an apology.  Okay, I owe many people an apology, but you're the only two names I can think of right now. 

See, earlier this year, and all of last year, I spent all of my free time cursing at and shouting about Hillary Clinton and her run for the Presidency.  When I first started blogging here, I had some incredibly bad moments during my run-ins with Dijamo and other Hillary supporters.  I was quoted as being "rabidly" against Hillary. 

But Hillary, like Dijamo, has grown on me this past summer.  I had the opportunity to meet Dijamo at an Obama party in Brooklyn in July.  I expected to butt heads with her.  I was pleased as punch, instead, to find myself really enjoying her quiet company up on the roof as we escaped the heat of the DUMBO loft apartment down below us where the party was taking place.  Dijamo was a class act, and never once held my previous, opinionated arguments against me.  We simply agreed to disagree and in the process found we actually could get along very well.  We are both on the same side politically, after all.

Hillary proved herself to be a class act too.  And, like Dijamo and I, I'm sure she and Barack have their differences of opinion now and then....but, like us, they are both on the same side politically, too.

I'm looking forward to Barack and Hillary having the same great conversations and camaraderie in the future that Dijamo and I have now. 

I'm on board the love train, and am no longer an asshat. 

{{{{Grope hug, Dija!!}}}}   <--- Inside joke

"What we really need is to --"
"Spend the night together?"
"So many suffering..."
"Body's in need of release...."
"If each and every one of us could --"
"Could adore a person the way that you do?"

"I don't see anything wrong with universal..."
"Sex."
"I feel for everyone, I feel..."
"Your hand on my --"
"No one should suffer ."
"I'm suffering now"
"Of course I love it when you"
"I love it when you --"
"Yes"
"We --"
"Can I dim the lights a bit, though?"

"Oh..."
"...Yeah..."
"And did I mention --"
"I really like that."
"There are thousands of uninsured  Americans --"
"Americans need to relax and let go of their Puritanical hang-ups."
"Let go?"
"Yes, let's..."
"Go where, where is this taking us?"
"Where we need to be..."

"Oh."
"Yes."
"But, getting back to politics?"
"Let's go back to bed..."

"Yes."
"We --"
"Did we turn out the light in the living room?"

"Yes, we did."

"Yes..."