I paid a lot of taxes this year. It would not surprise me to see the patriots lining up in Boston...not to play football but rather to dump some tea into the harbor. My home state has been particularly demanding this year. I have paid them an awful lot this past year, but in the words of Mr. Burns...they would trade it all for a little more. For once we did our taxes without cheating...just felt like saying that. We really have never intentionally cheated on our taxes. All of you good readers who we claim as dependents can trust my word on that! But...mistakes have been made. Transgressions of ignorance I like to call them. Just like I like to call tax workers ignorant transgressors. I think that might even be biblical. Our state's favorite Bible quote During Spring Break we took our usual vacation to the tax preparers office and were rapidly dispossesed of our nest egg. As a matter of fact, I believe th...
THIRD MOVEMENT REMEMBERING SONG THIRTEEN A MIND UNDARKENED II I trot alongside a narrow dirt road Naked footfalls from behind carry a huge black wolf to my side We lope on together heating breath to fuel our tracks His body is misshapen. His shoulders too big for his back and he wears a collar with no buckle or catch His eyes are deep hiddenite fires that match my own gray-green eyes The agony of the hunt is in him and he wants my life yet he holds back and stokes his stalker eyes -- wet fires of hunger, desire and need. Now he bends his body to make his leap and I let go a song – a lullaby I keep hidden in my deepest sounds. He falls back to running at my side his hunger is my own – unsated, denied. I wake ravenous and sweating The old One sits upright dozing ...