You Gave
Shepherds guarding sheep from wolves.
Walls against the outside world.
True north countering capricious poles.
Broke from the clan
to become my own man
thousands of miles from where I began.
A prodigal son
at odds with fortune
sewed the seeds of the lonely:
ennui, anxiety, melancholy.
Never found purpose playing paragon partisan
to some superstition’s celestial eidolon.
Never met a surgeon who’d commit to correct
my inner child’s congenital heart defect.
When I needed them most
my “friends” could not be found.
YOU gave me a new life
when my old life ran aground.
About the Creator
Chris Z
My opinion column garnered more reader responses than any other contributor in the paper's 40-year run. As a stand-up comic, I performed in 16 countries & 26 states. I've written 2 one-man shows, umpteen poems, songs, essays & chronologies.
Violence Begets
"Any last words, cowboy?" "None you'd understand, sodbuster." "Funny. That's Marshall Sodbuster to you. But I meant some last nugget that would help us in the adjudication of the myriad offenses counted against you and your gang. I wasn't asking for penitence."
By Adam Diehl5 days ago in Fiction
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