Melancholy Melody Lover Pillows

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

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

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

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

"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."

Lord Byron

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..."

"Perhaps a dirge would lift your spirits?"

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

Books: Success stories & Sob stories.

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

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

Items from the Fall 2018 Melancholia Catalogue.

Man has storm cloud umbrella.

Quartet of mermaids

Just go ahead and draw - I can't hit the broad side of a barn lately. Naw, I ain't really in the mood today. Low Noon.

Bored couple.

"Fall makes him sad."

Tears

Picasso's Blues Period

Death awaits the last leaf of Autumn with a rake.

Sad Songs.

"I like sad songs."

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

There's a tear in my beer.

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

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

Looking miserable out there today...

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