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12 • January 2016 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC.


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Consider the Garden


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... continued from page 6 Kenwood, CA. ~ I have to to- tally acknowledge I am a con- trol freak—no way am I what I always wanted to be—a sort of Zen in-the-moment, hippy dippy, ex-sixties flower child. I take no pleasure in the oozy, slimy swamp of the unformed and terror-filled unknown. I like a nice handy tool, a wrench, the screw driver of life so I can turn one way—only one, and make sure my future, past, and present is permanent, guaranteed, cure.


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Everything. All my seconds, hours, days, weeks. I want to know exactly what I will be do- ing this week and next so that each day is determined to make me, the person with the enor- mous appetite for security, to become even happier than the day before. What makes me unhappy? Things I can’t control like my writing life. Lately my head feels like an over-ripe spa- ghetti squash.


Where’s my


inspiration, vision, ah ha mo- ments—gone, gone, nowhere to be found. Will I ever be able to command the juices to flow again? Now I am relegated to doing nothing but trying to get


my next book out and am just operating on the soulless fi- nance, promotion aspects of the writing world. Will there ever again be those flights of fancy where a piece of the puzzle comes flying from one side of the room and locks into place with the other piece that has been sitting under my left ear for the last six months. I want to write about love, suf- fering, death, illusion, self de- ception, but mostly about love and its underbelly— hate...and then more love. Love between mother and child, friends and enemy, man and woman, a blue romantic swirling ocean of soapy, turbulent, gooey en- tanglement.


Come back to me my muse! Float lightly and land gently anywhere—the top of my head, the tip of my little toe. Embrace me with your soft stirrings, smile


upon your forgotten,


abandoned orphan. I promise should you deign to approach, I shall kiss the hem of your liter- ary garment, banish skepticism, and self-satisfaction. Then, I’ll relinquish the helm, become a believer of your existence, and never again usurp your rightful place as the true author of my works.





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