8 Quotes by Jon Obermeyer

Everywhere you lived is just a ledge, a placeyou could have tumbledfrom. Your hometownis a precipice, you’ll learnsomeday. What the realtorsold to you is merelya coat hook, an excuse for the roof to settleatop your head, like a butterfly

If you live on Statin Island, cholesterol is not a problem.

My Uber driver in Sacramento was not like my San Franciso Uber from earlier that day at SFO. My SAC Uber driver’s first presdential election was JFK-Nixon (or Eisenhower in 1956) and he was already drawing a Social Security check. "Father Time" overshot my fixed location (twice) and then didn’t listen to the navigation instructions. This guy’s signature move (and totem animal) is a U-Turn, a mile past the original juncture.

Your destiny is tiny.It says so right there in the word “des-tiny.”That means its really not that big a deal.Destiny is a pebble in your shoe.

I assume a constant stateof genuflection, retrievingpills, pens, coins: they fleemy grasp like Mexican jumpingbeans. Please do not ask meto carry the groceries, hangpictures, dust the mantle. Isuccumb to indexterity.

The poet walks the earth in relative obscurity. You might see him surface briefly at an open microphone event or at a workshop, but for the most part he stays in his burrow.His bosses love him. He writes elegant copy and sticks to his knitting. You hardly know he’s there in his cubicle.

Maybe it's my undiagnosed, adult-onset ADD, but I rarely have a problem with writer's block, a daunting blank page, or picking a topic. I read a lot and that helps

Everyone in California outside Sacramento thinks of it as the place where laws are created, where regulations are invented, and white-shoed lobbyists entertain elected officials from Tarzana and Tehachapi with filet mignon and garlic mashed potato dinners.I’m sure it is the same way in Albany, Springfield, Baton Rogue and Raleigh. State Government is like an ingrown toenail. Put your sock over it, slip your foot into a shoe and limp to work. Don’t let anyone else see it.