It will be a very long time before I trust you ever, ever - OK, I trust you again.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you, and that's why we broke up.

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was why it was doomed.

I'm dumping the whole box back into your life Ed, every item of you and me. I'm dumping this box on your porch, Ed, but it's you, Ed, who is getting dumped.

You winked, took the change. I should have seen it, Ed, as a sign that you were unreliable. Instead, I saw it as a sign of charming, which is why I didn't break it off right then and there.

Another gift, another secret, another time to lean in and kiss me.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

We should not judge people or try to figure out what makes them tick. We should leave them the hell alone.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. -John, Apostle (and brother?) of Jesus, The Bible (RSV, non-Catholic), 3:16

She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.

The only one who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.

The what is so much more important than how.

Health coverage for regular citizens isn't mandated by the Constitution, but we're obligated to provide adequate medical care for prisoners, whatever the cost.

What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!

This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.

I'd like my life back.