balance of blessings and history lessons

I’m Greek Irish,
grew up in the 80s
in South Jersey (the S
end of NJ, USA: the
garden part of what’s
called from what they see
from NY the Garbage State - 
pretty strong, pretty funny
considering they put most
of it there themselves!) before

living in California for 23 years

over a six-year misunderstanding

with a great girl. By the time
I had a job I loved and two many
people of my own to go back,

I found we’d left each other.

It was okay on balance.

So I majored in fine arts oil painting,
but that was before all that! Soon as I
realized landing a corner office in one
of the spank-shined gleaming towers of
Big Fine Arts Oils was all out of my ambition,

I hauled ass to Cali and switched
to songwriting in much the way
a demon

does.

It was

A-OK on balance!