I’ve quit
again
stop start
stop
quit
I don’t think I’ll go back
it wastes the days
makes me so sick
takes so little for me to overdo
I resent lost time
and suffering
my body doesn’t want it
and tells me so
ferociously
alcohol you say?
that too
but I was talking about men
The photograph is my mother’s father’s mother. I have one of the originals. The back is stamped: Battle Creek, Michigan. So she was having a “rest cure” at Dr. Kellogg’s famous health retreat.
Daily haiku or senryu for fun
An untethered tree finding its way to the sun and developing roots
All about opioid addiction and its treatment with medication
explorations on the journey of living
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poems, flash fiction and photographs
Tripping the world, slowly
LIke Hester, I really enjoyed the twist at the end.
Haha, you certainly know how to hold your readers in suspense until the last second. That is a great picture.