I make a steady effort to keep reducing my life. I've unraveled it's tapestry into a skein of loose threads. I'm down to the last one, it's getting thinner.
I used to have a wife, a business, a family, a community, but that's all gone now: the marriage was a lie, the business was killing me, the community was a cult.
So I cut it all away. Now all I have left is a few old friends, a fistful of poems, my old guitar, this big truck I live and work in, and a couple of kids whom I love.
Not much of a legacy for a lifetime. But I take satisfaction in this: there are no lies in it.
I'm nobody's jailer, I'm nobody's prisoner.
I make an honest living, take comfort where I can, love my kids with all that's in me.
I keep heading down the road, one step ahead of the reaper. So far, so good.