One for sadness

It's because there's so much associated with them, I think.

But it's weird how

I've lived almost twenty one years

and in all that time I never really saw

how beautiful

magpies are.

Drag

this will be painful.

but the purges have been worse than this, always worse,

and you've survived them.

this time, unlike others

it is a conscious choice.

tomorrow is composed of maybes.

September

Evades your misconceptions and flees earthly blight,

Your ailment

Your cholera.

Not conventional, nor chic,

that would be too easy.

Is it ever easy?

Don't answer that.

Intolerable stupidity and

righteous disappointment do battle

for thrones

of nearly gold.