My Frigging Life

Always there is life which, rightly lived, implies a divine satisfaction. - Thoreau

a song without words

a flight with wingless birds

a church without a steeple

a congregation without the people

a plethora of stained glass

a field of drought-stricken, trampled grass

a ruler that only measures in thirds

a club for pocket protected nerds

always on the run

holding my hat and sucking my thumb

a deck of cards with nothing but jokers

acquaintances of lawyers with side jobs as pawnbrokers

finger digging in my nose to entrench a dam

invoking fear like the boogeyman

like trying to catch a falling knife

this is my frigging life

Author's Note

"But let us hear a strain of music, we are at once advertised of a life which no man had told us of, which no preacher preaches. Suppose I try to describe faithfully the prospect which a strain of music exhibits to me. The field of my life becomes a boundless plain, glorious to tread, with no death nor disappointment at the end of it. All meanness and trivialness disappear. I become adequate to any deed. No particulars survive this expansion; persons do not survive it. In the light of this strain there is no thou nor I. We are actually lifted above ourselves." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Ms claws]

On top of all that, I found this for ya: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2022, women in the United States had an average life expectancy of 80.2 years, while men had an average life expectancy of 74.8 years. This means that women outlive men by an average of 5.4 years.

[Pete]

yes. probably because our trying to live with them ends up killing us, lol.

[Ms claws]

You sexy thang.