Kiss my cheek

There is this and that
and so much in between
we don't say everything
too this for that
he is staring at the umbrella
differences arise a divide inside this well
yet she remains too much a pillow book
written inside his thigh
on warm nights when we stick to sheets
the cool side of the pillow
she will read her words
rearanged to spell its name
deep within records and revisions
she will cry when they go
off into the other
to reappear in later years
kiss my cheek and say goodbye

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
-- Dr. Seuss

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
-- Doctor Who

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
-- Eric Hoffer

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
-- Jean Giraudoux

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
-- Leonard Bernstein

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.-- Henry Kissinger

His parents must have said, 'you don't know what you're talking about' fifty times during dinner. Maybe it was a euphemism for 'I love you."
--Darkest Fear

Boyd: "God says you look for excuses to be alone."
House: "See, that is exactly the kind of brilliance that sounds deep, but you could say it about any person who doesn't pine for the social approval of everyone he meets - which you were cleverly able to deduce about me by not being a moron. Next time, tell God to be more specific."
--House

When it rises.

At the moment
smoke suspends
after four glasses of whiskey
at a nameless bar
she will drag him to a tiny bookshop
when they leave she will insist
they dance a tango
in front of strangers.

Love's most common by-product is suicidal manic depression. Of course its worth it.
--Playing by Heart

“I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.”
--Wendy Liebman

Smile Sweetheart

Don't tell me to smile
we are strangers on this street
perhaps I am planning efficient ways for death
or pondering
greath depths of emotion
maybe i am simply beyond
this moment too acute for us
we are so fragile and so thinly veiled
where are you headed?
home to more this
that place where it is empty, yet filled
maybe i am smiling inside
favorite pop songs running through
my steps are my smile
but you would have to know me
to know that
then again, a strangers smile may assauge
this fear of loss, loneliness, disaster
so i will smile, for you
because you are me and sometimes
i need a smile.

I try & walk a line between terror & ecstasy, she said & then she shook her head.
--Brian Andreas

"So you do all the things couples do but without the sex? That sounds...horrible. The only reason people do the couple stuff is for the sex. Otherwise, what's the point?"
-M.