“My dream date is after we’ve already been dating for a few months and decide to go out on the town. We meet a cute guy, buy him drinks, and spend the next few hours laughing together and maybe slaying it at a karaoke bar. Afterwards we invite him back to my place and get into some role play. I become Israel, he Palestine, and you The Goddess that helps them finally come together, even though Israel has to bend over a little bit to make it happen.

Confession: this is a dream date. I have to become really committed to physical therapy again in order to get my singing voice back for karaoke and I live with old country people so it’d have to be at your place.”

Your ears I trust,
Your mouth,
  I do not

To you, the ground beneath my feet
Every step I take,
you support me.

You stand with me,
in my times of trouble

I am warmed by your embrace,
as I become entranced in your outfit of lace.

Nothing could be more finely crafted,
than my connection with you.

The ages may wear on you,
yet you remain the only one
my sole longs for.

For you truly are...
My favorite pair of shoes.

Is this the way the cookie crumbles
Or is it the ball that bounces
Could it be the nature of the beast
Not sure I like the sound of this

They say such is life, it is what it is
Seems to be the lay of the land
If you didn’t know, that’s the way that it goes
Played out by the unseen hand

That is the way the game is played
It’s just par for the course
Without a doubt, the way it shakes out
About all that we can afford

You win some you lose some after all
The way the cards tend to fall
Where the wind blows you never know
But still, they say it’s your call

It’s a piece of cake otherwise them’s the brakes
As we hum Que Sera, Sera
That’s the nature of course, the way the world works
It’s just the way that things are

I have no complaint
prosperity that
the golden Muses
gave me was no
delusion: dead, I
won't be forgotten