Headline Poem 9/8/14 -- It's hard to understand

We're having stormy, humid, rainy weather this week in So Cal. Here is today's headline poem. 

It's hard to understand 

It's hard to understand 

that 

I need you 

for comfort though 

you're the reason 

I hurt 

and gaze

in disbelief

 at how my life 

for the last five years 

chained and drenched 

me as I attempted 

to 

juggle (with one arm) while poison and cobwebs dripped and spun 

         right under my growing nose. 

If I weren't me, perhaps 

I'd laugh, 

though this is no joke. 

These are 

veins and hearts, 

not empty 

record sleeves and cassette tape dreams. 

This is a real,

tangible thing. 

On display today, and 

everyday,

a second hand find 

I didn't realize 

I needed 

until it unraveled itself

     in my line

like 

a blue velvet picture of smiling 

women 

and their perfect breasts, 

    wrapped in 

 feathers  and    pebbles, 

all wet 

from 

the rain 

that's taken them 

apart 

and brought them 

back together

     again.