A.G.E's Joint

  I am at the last verse in my life. What do you do when the dreams all go by and all you hear is the doom and gloom of the squawk box?  Do you cheer the doomers on? Do you wish to wander far away? Do you wonder if what you did was right? Or did you waste your time? The time was always right to do what was right, but was it at all? Only time will tell.

      Congrats to Martien Ecrits and all of us in making ten years of writing.   Like we do at the beginning of every years, we introduce ourselves. My name is Christopher Mitchell , also known by my internet handle Another Government Employee, or A.G.E.. Several years ago, I was this guy: http://anothergovernmentemployee.blogspot.com/... I have since left government employment (by mutual consent) and now spend my time consulting on pension and payroll issues and writing nonsense as a hobby.   I started with Blogophilia in the middle of the 2nd season at the invitation of Spidey John (may he rest eternal). I had been a member of a couple of other groups (the Treehouse, Group Blogging Experience) and I began lurking around the crazy Martian’s shop. A MySpace invite later, I came in. My Space died and we moved over to Facebook and here we are.    I am primarily a prose writer, but do run Free Verse from time to time. There ...

Tick… The spring winds down slowly No one to reset No one to rewind Tick… No one to see The fracture in the spline Tick… As we go The slack grows Until the tick Pulls no more.