Right Then

When you got wasted
you were only a friend
that's all you could be
right then

Graffiti Suicide

Draft Thug Niggaz

The Edge of Insanity

I continue to believe, increasingly, that we are all just one short step away from insanity most of the time.

Humankind finds solace in routine or in "doing what we must" (survival). But the knife in your hand making the family dinner could, with a sudden unexpected movement and little or no pain, cause irreparable damage or even death.

Every time we stand at the edge of a cliff, we stop ourselves from jumping. Have you never had thoughts in anger of things you knew should never be done, or even thought about?

The sweet escape of insanity is always close at hand. Like an addiction you can dabble with it, tempt fate, deny its easy appeal. But stay there too long, you may never come back. You may not want to.

Lover's Last Dance

In heels and dress and hair and makeup she leaves the house for the big dance. In the front yard there are two rattlesnakes doing a mating dance. She gets a camera and takes their picture, and then gets a shotgun and blows them away.