poetic license Poet Leonard Durso muses about life ironing shirts friendship you talk about everything and nothing and somehow the time flies till the next time you talk about nothing and everything a simple act stroking cotton smoothing wrinkles the chore that follows laundry coffee laced with Bailey's Erroll Garner on his piano the cat on the couch a breeze through open windows domesticity here on my corner of the world ahead the sun peeks out from behind the clouds crowding the sky with a promise of a better day ahead and like the sun my heart peeks out from behind the debris cluttering the past with the hope of a better life ahead Leonard Durso is an expat American writer living in Turkey. His books can be viewed on the following website: www.leonarddurso. com. and his poetry on www.leonarddurso.com. He also owns an expat New York cat who thinks he is a dog. 5 GRAND MAY JUNE 2018 things I shouldn't do anymore run to catch the ferry another will be along soon and there's no one waiting at home anyway drink more than one bottle of wine the mouth gets numb and you can't taste it or tell if it's red or white spend more than 15 minutes playing solitaire and try not to cheat but lose more than win eat hot dogs for breakfast that's why they invented cornflakes and yogurt tell stories at work half the time they don't listen and it just makes me homesick for my friends talk to myself in public someday someone will know enough English to punch me in the mouth display so many of your pictures it's pointless to have them staring at me from the bookshelves love someone unselfishly because next time I'm going to be a little selfish and expect the woman to love me a little bit, toohttps://www.facebook.com/GRANDmagazine/ https://www.twitter.com/grandMmagazine https://www.leonarddurso.com/ https://www.leonarddurso.com/ https://www.leonarddurso.com/