Sambuca & Second Chances

It's all we have

to be all we are

for whoever's left

who will listen.

The Good Samaritan's Concubine

"I see that you didn't

shave today

to fit into

your character."

When I was a kid

my old man was asked

to play the Penitent Thief

hanging on one 

of three makeshift crosses

in the Crucifixion Christmas play

put on by our church

in downtown Newburgh.

The role of Christ

had been reserved 

predictably

for the pastor

but I sometimes ask 

its writer, Luke

what if it hadn't?

Messiahs run

in our blood.

"Lady, this beard

took a week."

Currently reading:

"Dreams of the Astronaut" by Boom Boom Shapiro.