A Woman's Plight, Altered States, Comedy

Why Do I Try?

“Last minute, under the wire, found a replacement cute microwave to trade for the black small microwave.

It also has a lock – but hey, it’s the same white that matches my toaster, right?l!

Everybody helps make the transaction happen.

Then get it into the car – and there’s a smell.

Not only a perfume/cologne smell, but the smell of it having been in a smoker’s house.

That which I am somehow living in and trying to get resolved out of smell inundateion.

‘The irony runs thick with this ine…'”

A Woman's Plight, Altered States

Laminate Floor

“Still doesn’t stop a dog from peeing to where it runs under everything, making it difficult and thus painful to clean up around midnight.

And it doesn’t stop someone’s hidden smoke box fumes from seeping in, clouding and choking where should be fresh air.

They say you have rights, but it’s more responsibilities.

And I’m to the point of needing to no longer care.

I can’t pretend to keep captaining the way that I used to.

I need to divide and divy off what there still is to share.”