Missing Grandmother

 

Missing Son

 

Including the Ones I Could Not Then Verbalize

I look back on my younger self and agree with her stance even more now, not less, versus the popular parlance of holding our younger selves in disregard, and I better understand her reasons for being against the war, including the ones I could not then verbalize or even access on some conscious level, with the feared conclusion being the way they have now waged the war upon us here in-country, which is of course what they were always going to do if allowed to carry on the way they have out-country.

Just All the Starlets Here

We’re just all the starlets here, following our same various bedtime routines. We rise, we fall, together, silent side by side, like it or not.

Early Aughts Flashback

I still shudder to think of it, that apartment I looked at in Mar Vista with those rugs, those cheap industrial rugs masquerading as carpet.

You Will Be Got

 

You may already have been got.