I want you to have my life — 2

Accepting that change is good — but that we can’t change everything. A prose poem.

“Dirty Water” Sculpture — and photo by the author.

Who am I? Your average Joe…

My family is nuclear — my rhythms are regular. I am Jack’s grumbling ulcer and Pulp’s Common People (with some persistent emotional abuse that keeps me motivated…) I can hum Pharrell’s “Happy” and mean it — I can be a party animal and feel it. I am the stats — have lived…