Stuck in Minneapolis
Stuck in Minneapolis

Here am I, again,
Stuck in Minneapolis, one of
The Twin Cities.
Apartment buildings stretch upwards
before my eyes.
I sit alone,
watching it get slowly dark
Outside, while my new "home"
Sits without heat for another night.
But I am not there, with my 
Russian roommate, my air matress,
And the other things I have brought there.
No, I am anywhere
Everywhere!, but there.
"Just another dream." Says 
My music, but I can only wish
She were right.
Am I making a mistake?
Sometimes I think so.
I've been here now for 3 weeks straight,
4 or 5  or 1000 weeks total.
It all seems the same to me.
5 more days and 6 more nights and 
I can get out of here, if only for
A night.
And night falls, again, dooming me 
To be cold and alone again.
But enough of this!
At my strongest, I LIKE it
here.
But I'm weak today.
And yesterday.
And tomorrow...Maybe.
No one knows Tomorrow,
Though everyone has heard of her.
Tomorrow I will still be...
Stuck in Minneapolis. 

October, 1999

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