You lied to me: Sendack, Shakespeare, Hugo, Cobain, Pablo The Altruist, Hesse, Fitzgerald The Fanatic, Marley,  partly you Sanchez, Garcia, Messy The Obscure, E Tu Hewitt?, Vilma The Quixotic,  Lorenz, Cappas, Sarkisian my English Teacher, Tagan, S. Rodriguez, Plutarch The Compromiser, Durant, sometimes even you Lennon + Lennin!

     Electrified by your beautiful pictures and labrynth lies, I built a ship and voyaged across an ocean for many a year, fishing up fanaticisms for super, and at last came to where the wild things are.  I loved as you all told me to love.

     The demons roared their terrible roars, and gnashed their terrible teeth, and rolled their terrible eyes, and showed their terrible claws and I stared into their terrible eyes and maybe blinked once.. but didn’t back down.  I loved as you told me to love.

     They didn’t make me King of love. Instead they bit me savagely and did terrible things to me but taught me their savagely wondrous secrets, till I came to understand how they howl at the moon so curiously.    

     Having mixed feelings about how life’s turned out, I’ve been thinking a bit about you lately. Today, I think I figured it out. You must have sailed near and heard their terrible roars, seen the flash of their terrible claws, and with varying hesitancy, turned and sailed home to your warm beds and hot soup.

      Me, I left me behind. No longer will he come back but I tried to go home but they didn’t even recognize me or accept me. I don’t even want to anymore.  Wherever the winds of love are, you’ll find me.  I will soar again as you told me.