cynikaloptimist

For me freedom and living are synonymous. I might be slightly more fortunate than others when it comes to financial matters. Due to the fact that I collect Social Security Disability Benefits to the tune of roughly $700 a month and I was also awarded a retroactive payment for 26 months of SSDB checks to cover the time period when I wasnt getting paid, Im...
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Everything continues to change: The people, the venues, the promoters, and the vibe. Somehow I manage to keep myself frozen in the same mindset, actions, behaviors, and thought-patterns. I find myself looking out and seeing the rest of the world moving, sometimes flying past me. Yet I don't find myself harboring even the slightest desire to join the movement.

Regardless of the fact that I...
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I added new photos to my pics folder. There are three pics of my new cousin, i guess she's once removed, or maybe she's a second cousin.....that shit confuses the shit outta me, all I know is that my cousin pete and his wife catia had her over the weekend. She was only 6 pounds and 14 inches long. Her name is Madeline Alma.

I...
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"...it's important to have a good life in order to have a good death." Anita Schorsch

"If at first an idea isn't absurd, there is no hope for it." Albert Einstein

"All great truths begin as blasphemies." George Bernard Shaw

"It is you...who will define which I you think of when you think of when you say - I" Unknown

"While I thought that I...
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Merger da Mesa
1/25/03 A. Cameron Wright

Silencing, well attempting to silence, the mechanical racket
Provided by a non-stop flow of cars (no bigger than large ants)
Which inexhaustibly follow the leader to their perspective colonies;
And only through the assistance of mechanical music reproduction
That eventually passes a sentence of death by asphyxiation to the travelers
Auditory pollution drowning out all the stereophonic discharge....
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2006 A. Cameron Wright

BRILLIANCE

Your eyes radiate
With a twinkle
Which cuts across
The depth of the room...

Coupled with your smile,
I am caught
Struggling to maintain
Sufficient air in my lungs.

As I sit across from you
I thank the stars
For their willingness
To look dim compared to you.