Once in a while,
I think about leaving everything behind. Liquidating all that belongs to me and purchasing a ticket to somewhere distant and random. Perhaps Timbuktu. Mt. Fuji? No mementos, no sorrows, no regrets. Living off the land until the batteries in my hearing aids lose their charge. Maybe then I will be able to hear the universe and find my dreams again. Once the end is in sight, I will scream my lungs out until they fill the world. The skeleton I leave behind will join the dead in covering the earth with forgotten stories and memories.

Once in a while.