“Don’t you have
your work?”
I’m confounded
with some
beautiful
pursuits
and I have
to know how
to construct and deconstruct
your heart
Though there are people who’d say I don’t
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I hope
I think
I stutter.
I blink
I shall be
temporarily preoccupied
I have
vaguely disappointed.Coming “straight out the gate” with some self-deprecation!
Wanna see me hedge my bets? I’ll give a demonstration:
The first person pronoun even looks like a crutch
(if I start really simple, you won’t expect quite as much).
I’ll admit that it’s strange reaching out with introspection
(I’ll fall back on myself if these words only find rejection).
I even structured it so it would rhyme (oh, that old trick).
And if you hated it, at least it ended pretty quick.
There. That’s out of my system. For today. D O E – 1 – Commentary (cont.)
I hope
I think
I stutter.
I blink
I shall be
temporarily preoccupied
I have
vaguely disappointed.commentary on this poem
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I’ve DM’d a D&D game five times. At the last session, we wrapped up the first “chapter” of the unfolding saga and finished up the session with some story-based levelling up of the characters. Now they have more skills, more HP (not the sauce… although…), and can, as a result, face more peril. devil emoticon. What delights me most are all of the loose ends that can rear their heads as we go forward. grin emoticon. The world continues to expand in a big bang fashion while we’re not gathered at the table. And I’m starting to get a feel for the characters – I have high hopes for the journey the players are taking them on internally. I can’t wait to see what they do with what I’ve got up my sleeve for their next challenge.
There have been some recent situations where I’ve been asked what I “do” – that old chestnut. Sometimes saying I’ve worked on a legal marketing client database for nearly five years is enough to steer smalltalk elsewhere. If there’s a sincere desire on the asker’s behalf to know who I am, though, I have to follow up with the information that, after high school, I studied acting.
I’m an actor.
It’s true, even though I haven’t taken a bow since 2010.
It’s true, even though I’ve officially auditioned exactly twice since then.
It’s true, even though saying it feels more inauthentic than saying I’m in legal marketing (so much imposter syndrome, all the time).
It’s true. The Nature of Love (cont.)
