Life's Not All Puppies and Sunflowers

How great would it be if life were kittens, cupcakes and lollipops? Not as great as you might think. All I can picture is cat hair covered lollipops. Maybe you could at least get part of the cupcakes hair free but only by losing the top (better known as the best part). Which just leaves the kittens. Not bad until they get to the "I'm going to climb you" stage and you're bleeding more often than not.

What it boils down to is that life is nothing more than our interpretation of it. Ignoring the psychobabble aspects of that, for me it meant decades of looking at things from the negative side of life. I'd say with good reason (if you stick around long enough you'll see why). Oh the stories I could tell. O.K., the stories I will tell. That is all behind me now. I've been looking at life from a different vantage point these days. More outspoken on political and civil rights issues, interested in writing fiction and most importantly... trying to find a reason in everything for people to laugh. What I've been through to get here is now nothing more than resource material for where I'm going.

So here we are; me butchering the English language in an attempt to share my point of view and you waiting to see what sort of polished turd I'm able to pull out of my past experiences for your entertainment. Let us begin.

Text and Photo © 2013 Steven Burke