Monday, March 12, 2018
Ends
WELL IT’S NOT THE END
OF THE WORLD!
Thus did friends Chuck and
Mignon, waiter Henry, and
Kell and Max and Louise
at work, reassure nervous
him.
It did. Until it didn’t because
it was.
All was fatalistic then, on
the order of “Screw it!
Nothing can be done, so
let’s have some nice wine!”
No one lonely, the one
saving grace.
Labels: end of world, mutual support, nervous
Tuesday, December 06, 2016
After the breakup--
horrendous!--
Heck and Lucy never met again,
though living in a five mile circle.
After two years, he thought he
spied her athletic rear in Home Depot,
and followed at a distance.
But that woman was soon hectoring
a clerk in Lighting. Lucy was a
smoother operator.
Friend Lincoln: "Statistically you have
to meet her soon, unless the gods
of sanity are holding you magnetically apart."
"l'm dreading."
"That's you! She has moved on!
But you're a nonentity from nowhere
doing nothing!"
"Helps me breathe."
"You know what I do when faced with
a really human conundrum? I ask
what would a grownup do?"
"ln my juvenile case?"
"Phone her! Hey been two years and I wondered..."
"Yeah? And where from there?
She's unpredictable! What if she
wants to hook up again?"
"A fear completely groundless!”
l just want you two chatting and
hanging up. Perfect! Now you
can meet by accident without
a stroke."
"Nonentitiy, hey?"
"Well not ALWAYS!"
Labels: anxiety, breakup, couple, fear of encounter, grownup, nervous
Thursday, November 03, 2016
Defining Drama Queen
-We're more than a bit nervous,
but not Drama Queens.
-I don't like to be called anything
with Queen in it!
-Noted. Well then, let's coin a term:
Dramatics. Suitable for our sex,
and the fair one also.
-I feel like a Dramatic sometimes.
-All about you?
-I guess one likes to add color and
zip to the proceedings upon occasion.
-With a super dash of ego?
-That, too, of course.
-Life can get gray without Dramatics.
-So, let the worst of us overdraw it? Bully us
that way?
-In measure.
-It's...mostly gray now.
-Get more friends! Go to ballgames.
We live near Philly. Phillies,
Eagles, Sixers, Flyers form the
regional bellyache. Sports Radio
will extinguish your spare, lonely hours.
-Should...I marry again?
-Sixty-two percent. She'll bring problems,
but compensations.
-Must make sure she's not a Drama Queen!
-Dramatic.
-Oh, right. I'm glad we had this little chat.
It brought me absolutely nothing.
-What I'm here for.
Labels: Drama Queen, dramatic, Eagles, fair sex, Flyers, marriage, nervous, nervous males, Philadelphia, Phillies, Sixers, Sports, sports radio
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Being Short With People
“You’re so nervous I can’t stand it!”
Rose to Mick, not the opposite the culture
has decreed.
She married calm Nocky, and they died
in a blistering suburb of Phoenix.
But it was a dry death.
And merely figurative, for the nonce.
Labels: cultural roles, death, heat, metaphor, nervous, Phoenix
