May 27
ROUSs
Time passes, I clock it and count it and use its passage to construct a defense or accusation depending on my need. I use the calendar to condemn you because my feelings do not have sufficient leverage for my mental calculations. To prize disappointment from this scene I watch the water-clock waiting for adequate drops to lift the flood gate and free me from your unfulfilled promise and my unrealized hope. How long is too long to stand in a quagmire? Why do I feel the need for permission to leave the quicksand?
Match persistence with cheer
*
DOLL
Why is your face all red, asked my sponsor?
I didn’t get my way, I responded
And this crimson appearance is the result?
You see that it is
I was very careful about what I wanted
And worked hard to be reasonable.
And Baby , you were, you did nothing wrong
Your ego was in check
And you kept your expectations in proportion
Said my sponsor
Then why didn’t it work out my way?
I only have a sad and simple answer for you
The results had nothing to do with you.
Your wants, expectations or desires,
The whole experience boils down to only one thing
It wasn’t that type of party, Doll.
Oh.
Like this:
Like Loading...
Related
About Sherrie Theriault
Sherrie Theriault, writer and outsider artist lives in northwest New Jersey where she writes villain-free fiction for children and young adults, creates coloring books for all ages, writes daily inspiration books for the recovery community and has other works of collected poetry; also adult fiction.
Books available on Amazon.com include the following:
Cala Mae
The Deep Dark Day In
The Congenial Chronicles
The Holland’s Adventure
Fill Me In
Fill Me In, Too
Filled In
Sober on the Way to Sane
More Sober on the Way to Sane
Lines from My Life
More Lines from My Life
On-Liners to Live By
My Sponsor Said…
Elissa: Queen of Carthage
Was Love Lost
Order of Protection
The Story Precedes the Question
Can You See?
What the Birdies Told Me about You
What the Birdies Told Me about You Coloring book
The Enchanting Dog
Sherrie’s books are available at Blue Stockings, Manhattan, NY, The Clinton Book Shoppe, Clinton, New Jersey, Giovanni’s Room, Philadelphia, PA, Easy Does It in Long Beach, CA and The Latest Thing in Costa Mesa, Ca. You can find Sherrie’s art work at Hang-Ups Gallery in Allentown, PA or online at: SerendipitousGallery.com
Please feel free to contact her there if you have any questions.
