Dogs 2020


A Personal History?(9/4/2020)
“you’ve been
to some interesting
places
you’ve done
some interesting
things
why
don’t you write
about them?
have it
published?”
what they
want
is some sort
of pretty
collection
of paragraphs
a heavily
sanitized
extremely
diluted version
of my past
they don’t
really
want to hear
about the obsession
for that next
drink
the full-feature
drunken adventures
as they happened
products
of distorted
thought
barely
remembered
in context
and now
since
I’ve sobered
the travel
the petty
crimes
the madness
in motion
have subsided
they don’t
really
want to hear
about my present
stasis
of apparent
normality
so I
write instead
of my current
private
insanity
as it
quite often
overcomes
me
asocial rants
in this
isolation
of self
a personal
mystery
hardly suited
for
publication