Self & Identity

It started a while back, probably in my mid-fifties, maybe a bit before, when I was still practicing law, corporate law mind you, quite complex stuff, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust cases, all… …

so like it was last year right before christmas and it was my first actual job you know not like helping my uncle on the farm or whatever but a REAL job at the gas station over on county road eight… …

I was cleaning out my room today— my CHILDHOOD room, can you believe it, still here taking care of everyone — and I found these poems I wrote to a girl who didn't even LIKE me, and I just... …

You’re expected to marry for life—a good match, for family—but secretly, you just wonder if any of it really makes sense anymore. …

and the bills keep coming, another gig gone, this whole situation is just so much. …

Like you spend twelve hours a day defending… big companies, you know? …