Garage 8
©2009 Craig Ashby
Digital Photograph

Garage 8 is a warning about maximum clearance. A steep incline into darkness. Nice to see that darkness can emanate from above.

I feel the same darkness emanating from my frontal lobes. It isn’t like a headache because it echoes in my chest. Filling my entire body with a heated rage.

It’s something I have dealt with for years. That feeling of being powerless and bullied has never gone away. Still everyone’s faggot punching bag.

Even now as I head towards fifty I hear or read that word and I just want to maim. I can’t take it back from them as so many others have. I don’t fucking want it.

I have known for so long that I need to take control of the rage. Find some form of self defense that would truly empower me. Some chain for the great beast.

Maybe next year. I always say that as though the years will never stop coming. A very short sighted plan.