Last night I was sitting on Adrian's back porch playing with his puppy, Rufus. Rufus is a giant one-and-a-half year old dog who slobbers and has attacked a dog. Meanwhile, Adrian's neighbors returned: mother, daughter, and father. Father came over to talk to Adrian about new baby, while baby could be heard crying inside, and having to go to court to receive his sentencing.

It got me to thinking.
If every time someone wanted to have a kid they adopted a dog instead, the animal shelters would be empty. If every time they wanted to have a child, they adopted one and instead, orphanages wouldn't be as full. Children without parents would have parents and that absence would be filled.

Instead, I am probably paying for these people to raise their children to be like them, and my children will pay, so on and so forth. Does this make me selfish? perhaps. Pessimistic? probably.

perhaps, finally

Goodbye, day. Wash off face and down the drain.
Little by little, crumb by crumb
Pieces fall away
Day is done. Goodbye, day.

new year

So this is the new year.
And i don't feel any different.
The clanking of crystal
Explosions off in the distance (in the distance).

So this is the new year
And I have no resolutions
For self assigned penance
For problems with easy solutions

So everybody put your best suit or dress on
Let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once
Lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn
As thirty dialogs bleed into one

I wish the world was flat like the old days
Then i could travel just by folding a map
No more airplanes, or speed trains, or freeways
There'd be no distance that could hold us back.

There'd be no distance that could hold us back [x2]

So this is the new year [x4]