New Beginnings

With the start of a new year, Mortimer and I have decided to take a fresh start with our writing.  The past month of vacation from writing has given us a new perspective on different parts of our life.  As you can see, we've revamped the blog and given it a new, sleek look to reflect our changed perspective.  We plan on exploring a few new topics and incorporating new experiences, while retaining Mortimer's irony, pessimism and decidedly dark viewpoints, as well as Jacob's constant themes of emotional turmoil and love of science fiction.  We also plan on releasing new "fresh start" themed poems and a short story for the month of January.
Here's the first new poem from Mortimer.

Endings Are Beginnings

One door shuts, will another open?

Work lines in exchange for fancy pens

Hoping that soon it all just ends

Sunshine on the pavement

Cold air snaps the cement

Wondering what it meant

Backs to the wall

Another empty mall

What's the point of it all?

Is it really all just a joke?

Make some dough, then croak?

What happened to youth's hope?

They do anything for attention

Killing to hear their names mentioned

Truth hurts, they'll take take false pretensions

Weed, heroin, crack, meth

Wallowing in sorrows until death

Is life just a waste of breath?

But when one door closes, another will open

If you step out, start again and find real friends

Move forward with faith and be happy when it all ends