Tagged: failure
on a scale of one
on a scale of one
to ten, waking up at five
a.m. to secure
a delivery slot is a
nine, batting zero for two
.
20200415:2222
y
the heart, troubled, can
first thing, saturday
first thing, saturday
morning, you take
the temperature
of our nation without
fail – another
shooting, another
breach, a familiar
unrest, a polished
contempt – i am
in the other room,
hanging on until
brunch, waiting
for a bloody peace
.
20151212:1953
y
we are meant
we are meant
to slip
every once
in awhile
to better
fill in the gaps
.
20150927:0059
y
this morning, we heard
this morning, we heard
you were gone. if we were supposed
to be the net, we
failed. what’s the value of friendship
when the noose is tightening
.
20150509:1125
y
when the heart
when the heart
fails, take
a deeper breath –
release
soon follows
.
20140930:2323
y
taking an early
taking an early
evening nap is setting
yourself for failure –
it’s a quarter-to-one, my
body bets against my brain
.
20140620:0046
y
at the end of the
at the end of the
day, the trick to making it
requires some falling
.
20121023:0832
y
knowing that there is
knowing that there is
somewhere else to
go after all – should
we fail ourselves
and earth’s
surface – could
perhaps be
comforting,
but mostly, when
faced head-on
with the future,
the present seems
so much fresher
.
20120920:0844
y
the things that
the things that
hold us
up often
have a mean
streak –
just when we
are most
secure, reclining
in the beam of
assertion, we are
no sooner
overturned,
dazed, under
inspection
.
20120221:0833
y
y 