Zeus owes me

Homer says, “Zeus does not bring all men’s plans to fulfillment”
and never were these words
brought home more clearly
than yesterday

The dog shit in the girl’s room
The dog slobbered and bled dog pussy juice on my brand new furniture
The dog is a 75 pound pitbull
The dog is going to the pound

Simple enough lines for you Buk
I also got to shoot the neighbor’s dog.. twice
right in the ass with birdshot from my .22 rifle
He’ll live for now, tomorrow calls for hollowpoints

Leaving for work on a beautiful (shitty) morning
I happened upon a fawn so small she was barely
able to stand on the side of the road
shaking, alone, the mother no doubt split (when you need mother most, right?)

It timidly took a step off the familiar grass and
onto the paved road her mother bounded over
just moments before
“It’s surely safe,” she must have thought, “or mother would never have gone over.”

Two steps later she was 10-57ed (hit and run) by an SUV
and lay dazed on the asphalt
legs splayed out in all directions (think Bambi on ice)
hurt, but very much alive

In comes the LeSabre (pronounced Luh Sahbree, you hick)
I centered her in between the wheels (hoping to avoid the crunch)
only to hear the very sickening thud of her head smashed on the transmission chunk
I looked back, with her legs still splayed comically, her head made one swooshing circle and fell limp

That sucked, so anyhow, back to my story, this is a great day
you see, I was getting a Harley-Davidson today
1990 Softail Custom
Black as hate and mean as hell

Here’s where karma kicks in
no fucking bike, couldn’t finance an old bike
“would you like this other newer, more awesomerer bike?” (2007 Street Bob, customed out $23,000)
Right bike, wrong color and a price so ridiculous I (normally the sucker consumer) laughed in his face.

Zeus says, “FUCK NO!” (imagine a God like voice telling you that)
You see, in life, sometimes you fuck people, you’re the fuck-er
other times you get fucked, you’re the fuck-ee, that’s karma
As for the deer, I fucked him first, he might have jumped in front of my motorcycle next year, killing me instead

-GS

bored

boredom has caused me
more
misery and pain
than
any other emotion

love has caused me
some
misery and pain
but
it is soon replaced by nostalgia

hate has rarely caused me
much
more than a black eye
or
an occasional ass whippin’

Boredom, that whore bitch, has
nearly
cost me my life on occasion
and
nearly my salvation (if there is such a thing)

I’m bored, let’s go fight.

I’m bored, let’s go fuck.

I’m bored, let’s rob this fool.

I’m bored, let’s steal this car.

I’m bored, let’s get stoned.

I’m so fucking bored.. I just want to make myself feel something.

I’m bored with this.. so bored.. you can never understand.

two bags of skins

SCORE

2 bags of vinegar and salt pork skins
nets me a score of
3 methadone
3 Hawaiian shirts
7 Vs and a 6 pack of Miller Lite

how do I do the math?
2PS + being a mamma’s boy > 3MD+3HS+7V+6beer-2HS (she needs 2 back for my step dad)

I quickly downed the pills with said beer
and mom tells me that
Ms. Moore had recently had a stroke
for years her Doctor has been treating her for
acid reflux and luckily she has heart disease

I saw her two weeks ago hoeing in her garden
She’s 83.. she’ll be dead in a week they say

I declined to tell my mom that my sister’s husband
got fired from his job the other day, luckily
I had gotten my sister a job at the hospital
transporting patients from their room to diagnostics
to the OR and to the morgue when needed.

She won’t see Ms.Moore there though,
she quit HER job Monday, she has endometriosis

Life is funny like that sometimes
I have quit several jobs at the most ridiculous
times (right before my 2nd child was born) and people were always like
WHAT? You quit Bellsouth? Why? It’s such a great fucking job..
It was fucking boring lying to people all day

I was in customer support, back in the hay day of
cellular, when a dropped call was worth calling over.

I want to quit a lot of things sometimes
Just up and quit this job, take my last weeks paycheck and
fly overseas. Quit my current life, my wife and kids and family
Starting over somewhere, get a job as a shepherd
and follow the sheep over the hills and to the rivers.

Then looking around and wishing I had never come,
and quitting, leaving the ignorant sheep to wander free.

GS