Melancholic Soul Gifts

'I think our marriage would make a great country song.'

Man has storm cloud umbrella.

"Woke up this mornin', Found myself trapped in the Blues genre..."

Pastorius wonders why.

"I've got those 'Don't worry about me, I'll just be here, all alone' blues."

"Events seem to be headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, it's not taking me with it."

"The artist-in-residence is struggling a bit, but other than that we're fine."

Lord Byron

The Bar & Grill of Ordinary Men: Quiet Desperation 11 am - closing (Karaoke on Saturday)

"These brisk fall afternoons remind me of Chekhov, which reminds me of Putin, then Trump, the alt-right, facism, nuclear weapons ... let's go home."

'I hate my life.

'Dreams of how it might have been.'

"Half-full. Those were the days."

A depressed artist imagines a drawing, but it turns black.

'As I feared, the X-ray shows that you are crying inside.'

"Perhaps a dirge would lift your spirits?"

"Our flavors of the day are Prodigal, Importune, and Mal de Siècle."

Books: Success stories & Sob stories.

"I asked Bill to accompany this presentation with something in a haunting minor key."

"I never got a chance to say 'Shut up.' "

Items from the Fall 2018 Melancholia Catalogue.

Bored couple.

"Fall makes him sad."

Tears

'Boy...usually it just gently weeps.'

"I'm full of an unspeakable sadness and it goes a little something like this..."

Where the boulevard of broken dreams crosses the avenue of broken appliances...

Tailpiece to E Dowson's 'The Pierrot of the Minute'

There's a tear in my beer.

"I like sad songs."

Brenda Sanchez undergoes her daily moment of ‘Woe Is me.'

"This drink? It's called loneliness. Care to join me?"

Looking miserable out there today...

'Your work is so bleak, so despairing, your angst so wrenching. I've never read a party invitation quite like it before.'

"The pit of despair. That's new, isn't it?"