The Return Of The Herd By Charles Sprague Pearce (1851–1914)

Large Dead Leaf No. 2 (1966) by Eliot Hodgkin

The Courtroom Funeral: April 16th, 2021

“You, I did it all for you. Do you know who I am? Do you know just what to do? Now you're all that I have, Is it fair to love me, too?

You, it hurts because of you. And I'll kiss you through a hazmat suit, That's what I'll do if I have to.

You seem to know who I am, As though you know just what to do. Now you're all that I have, Is it fair to love me, too?

And you, I did it all for you.”

--“If I Don’t Have To,” Keaton Henson

When things bottom out in the backyard, after that many drinks After that many times you didn’t see your daughter After that many times you weren’t what you wanted to be, or do, or achieve There is always dirt beneath your fingernails.

RMS, 8/23/2018

“She always cut her hair

so he couldn’t tear that out, too.”

(RMS, 7-16-22.)

Writing Room, Fall of 2018.

Tent life.

Summer 2018, Nashville, TN.

The girl is escaping the house, delightedly.

"Well, and what's cheese? Corpse of milk."

James Joyce

If you find someone who can forgive all your bullshit, the least you can do is try to forgive them.

Saga, Vol. 4, Chapt. 23

Memories in the soil.

(RMS, 3-1-2023.)