After trying so many ways to understand to really get it for once at least once After trying so many ways to accept the loss of give and take and small talk only to present ourselves to each other to make ourselves presentable as one does when one makes the effort to wash one's hair After trying so many ways to endure the pain it still hurts after all I told you it was going to hurt and you said you knew and you said you felt you had to do something different with me I know you tried After trying so many ways to hold on to myself I find like the man who was slip-sliding away because my love for you is so overpowering I'm afraid that I will disappear or like the whore who said a good day ain't got no rain and a bad day is when I lie in bed and think of things that might have been how could I have known I would be Jonah thrown overboard because I would not pray to my God and bid him save me from the storm and swallowed by a great whale th...
Give us this Day is the online creative journal of Kurtis Kitagawa, PhD (Edinburgh), MPhil (Oxford), MA (Chicago), BA First Class Honours (Calgary), who, withal, considers himself a student of history. Check daily for freshly composed essays and offbeat creative writing inspired by a life spent in universities, government, and business. Job offers gratefully accepted. Alternative facts welcome, and will not be burned. Nor will their ashes be used as eye shadow!