How to Make Friends

File this one under “Adulthood isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.” I don’t have a lot of experience making friends. Most of the time, if I have a friend, it is because they are an extrovert and they adopted me. But if I thought making friends as a child was rough, it paled in…

Executor

I pulled the plug.  It may as well have been a trigger, Says my heart; I closed the book myself, And cannot mourn.  Some loss is irrevocable; Powerless, you cannot stop The truck, the bullet, Turn back time. Denial, anger, bargaining,  Railing at life and death, Waves of grief, up and down, Washing. But some…