(Originally posted on the website Heron Flight)

LIFE

What is it but a mad dash? A stumble through the darkness? A bashed knee upon the pavement? A “fuck you” in the bitterness and a knife in the throat? A smile in the halls of the office.

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CHOO CHOO

Yes, I love the trains.

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MAYBE WE’D DUCK

C’mon, tell me…

If you and I found ourselves sharing a coupling of brewskies over the flaming fields of Armaggedon, what the hell would we be talking about?

Maybe the latest U2 record and George Bush’s foreign policy.

Maybe we’d just swap photos of our kids and duck while the sulfur rained down around us.