I am a Political Scientist by training
(and sausages seen, seen, seen),
Writer by passion and profession
(hastily a wall down an alley lonely;
in the scent trailing of dervish lovers
scrawling morse in adverbial silence
being the rat-a-tat of the coming night),
a Fixer of Problems for money, when
money means an easier time of matter,
and an impish scalawag by disposition;
(or disposed to dispose of that which is not;
being the artifice added after birth,
the mask, the paint, the lies).
I am a member of a generation so shit-scared of seeming passionate about anything that sarcasm has become currency, disenchantment has become rote, and we look more often at the snide than the stars.