Tag Archives: futility

Careful–or not

Careful–or not.  You don’t be careful, you’re going to wind up dead.  Every time Grandma spoke to me like that, I tried to show her that I still cared about my life and that I was not reckless.  But she was right, I would end up dead…in fact, I did end up dead; that’s how…More

the forever of unsure

It was impossible to be precise about itNo one felt anything definiteThere wasn’t any announcement about the thingWhen it happenedWe understood nothing of what had happenedTo us. We would have been afraid to sayAnything about it but the fearWas unpronounced, a vague stirringInstead we watched the earth shakeThe sky change into colorsUnimagined until now, now…More