cheap wine

your carcasses lay dispirited

emptied of life near the empty folk

in search of life in a glass

of quick highs that drown

suff'ring and multi-pains

and nightmares of a gone-time

with veins full for a moment

three swigs with a friend or more

that laughter might fly

and gurgled talk supply

what's missing all the time.

you are witness to this

laying drunk on the ground.

*We are creatures who need a sense of place.

-Ron Matous

*To be at peace, we also need a sense of home, of belonging to a particular place in a particular time in history.

-Ron Matous

Rootedness: the positive relation of place to life; the dominance of a place or people in our lives.

-Ron Matous