Melancholy Dreamer Prints

"So, are you here alone?"

"And so it begins."

"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

"In closing, I'd just like to say you've been a great crowd, folks. Don't forget to tip your waitress, and I hope this final number breaks your heart the way show business broke mine."

"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."

Neil Young

'I hate my life.

'Dreams of how it might have been.'

"Half-full. Those were the days."

DOUR and TROUBADOUR

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

Trilby - 'Malbrouck s'en va-t'en guerre'.

"Perhaps a dirge would lift your spirits?"

Books: Success stories & Sob stories.

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

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

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

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

Floating away

Tears

Man has storm cloud umbrella.

Bored couple.

Items from the Fall 2018 Melancholia Catalogue.

"Fall makes him sad."

Picasso's Blues Period

Death awaits the last leaf of Autumn with a rake.

"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...

There's a tear in my beer.

"I like sad songs."

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

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