prose+cons

.sentences too long for words

"Grandpa, why don't you just finish your sentence?" He thought my sentence was just a whole lot of words I had to write, like copying a sentence over and over for a punishment assignment at this grade school. He couldn't understand that my sentence continues for twice my natural life.

The Message

Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity
But silence is impossible.
Silence screams.
Silence is a message,
just as doing nothing is an act.

Let who you are ring out and resonate
in every word and every deed.
Yes, become who you are.
There's no sidestepping your own being
or your own responsibility.

What you do i s who you are.
You are your own comuppance.
You become your own message.

You are the message.

Doing time creates a
demented darkness of my
own imagination...

Doing time does this thing
to you. But, of course, you
don't do time.

You do without it. Or
rather, time does you.

Time is a cannibal that
devours the flesh of your
years

day by day, bite by bite.