Melancholy Poet Mugs

'Dreams of how it might have been.'

"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."

"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."

Neil Young

"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

'I hate my life.

"Half-full. Those were the days."

DOUR and TROUBADOUR

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

"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.

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

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

Items from the Fall 2018 Melancholia Catalogue.

"Fall makes him sad."

Tears

Picasso's Blues Period

Bored couple.

Death awaits the last leaf of Autumn with a rake.

"I like sad songs."

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

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...

Sad Songs.

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

'We thought it fit his rather plaintive personality.'

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.'

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

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