Everything looks terrible sounds terrible feels terrible even tastes terrible! But what about inside? Yes I agree the material world is looking rather grim, but who did this? Was it because we forgot who we really are? Because we became so material that nothing else matters? Only what we own, have or show off with? How sad is that. Sure it's nice to have nice things as long as it is all within our means. I remember a time when things seem so much more normal. Like wearing a pair of tennies was j… Continue

~ Nobody TOLD Troy? ~




Troy decided that life was no longer worth living. The economy was plummeting – and HE and his wifes “dream home” was going into foreclosure. He was laid-off and sat and watched CNN for weeks at a time. He panicked at every mention of a stock market downturn even though he had NO idea what it meant.
GODDAMN ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS!!! He thought to himself with a look of stupidity pasted on his sleep-deprived, face. One-Hundred-and-Fifty-Thousand jobs lost in the last quarter… Continue

~ FIRST DATES; SWEATY PALMS ~




I recollect being very shy in high school – and my recollection hardly ever fails me. Sometimes I wish that it would. Just for the sake of argument let's call my first love interest: Sheila. Sheila was so attractive to me. She stood 5' 6'', with an olive complexion, long, black hair – and statuesque.
I was 14-years-old – and my hormones often did the hoochie dance, so my description of Sheila should be taken with a grain of salt. I was also quite a quiet, young… Continue

~ INSOMNIA ~




If dreaming calms the savage beast,
which hides within the darkest trench,
of abscessed minds that free-fall nightly,
through cold and fright-filled, lonely sleep.

Clocks spin backward, or forward towards waking hours.
Accomplishing nothing but wasted time,
while nervous phantoms begin to fade,
away from eyes, and venetian blinds.

Awake, my child,
another day has come to call on weary, bones -
and muscles torn from heavy lifting;
life depends on broken backs.

For once,… Continue

~ AmericaHood ~


1.

~ Chapter One ~




We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.


~Preamble ~
~ The Constitution of The United States ~




The 15th Amendment of the Bill of Rights, ratified February 3rd… Continue