No ticket to Burning Man...
but clean drinking water
She doesn't care that it wounds me...
but there's a roof over my head and food in the refrigerator.
Leaving work again with stress knotting my spine...
but I received a free education and a new sense of dignity.
I could have been more or less...
but I am.
And in the absence of all other illusory absolutes,
this perception alone keeps the sorrow at bay.