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Poetry Friday

FEAR OF THE FUTURE

In the end one simply withdraws From others and time, one’s own time, Becoming an imaginary Everyman Inhabiting a few rooms, personifying The urge to tend one’s garden, A character of no strong attachments Who made nothing happen, and to whom Nothing ever actually happened—a fictitious Man whose life was [...]

Poetry Friday

INSOMNIA

But it’s really fear you want to talk about and cannot find the words so you jeer at yourself

you call yourself a coward you wake at 2 a.m. thinking failure, fool, unable to sleep, unable to sleep

buzzing away on your mattress with two pillows and a quilt, they call them comforters, [...]

Scary shit

A shattering experience – A post-recall, R-Sys wheel failure – VeloNews

Coming around a corner, I felt a shimmy through the front of my bike. I straightened up out of the turn to bring the bike under control. A second or two later I catapulted over the handlebars. The rim of my front wheel [...]

Do squeeze the shorts

Finally, the SEC does something on which I think both A-Train and I will agree. By placing tighter restrictions on failures-to-deliver and by considering reintroducing the uptick rule, the SEC is taking away the ability for short-sellers to manipulate the markets, but legitimate short-selling should not be significantly hampered.

Short Sellers Squeezed All Around – [...]

Video Poetry (Chained Version)

SOCIAL DISTORTION – BALL AND CHAIN

Well it’s been ten years and a thousand tears And look at the mess I’m in A broken nose and a broken heart, An empty bottle of gin Well I sit and I pray In my broken down Chevrolet While I’m singin’ to myself There’s got to be [...]

So now it’s sinking in …

… just how very much alone I am right now. And I don’t like it … I don’t like it at all.

It is so hard to open yourself up and put yourself out there; and when it doesn’t work, it’s so difficult to continue to do so, because of the fear of getting hurt [...]

Big moves …

So the past couple of weeks, I’ve been interviewing for a job in New York … this past Monday, I was made an offer. Unfortunately, I had to turn down the offer because it didn’t make financial sense … with no relocation package and only a 15% raise (compared to to the 80% increase on [...]