by: Sam Hendrian Continental breakfast with a stranger The logic of shouldn’t do this but why not Of course, two can only keep a secret Judgment is sourced from hatred, It’s over, I didn’t mean it Either way, what’s another cookie? Sam Hendrian is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, poet, and playwright striving to foster empathy through art. From writing personalized poems for passersby outside of an LA bookstore every week, to making Chaplin-esque silent films about loneliness and human connection nearly once a month, Sam lives to make other people feel seen and validated. More work can be found on Amazon, YouTube, and in various online literary magazines.
Addictive Justifications
He’d seen naked three times already
Wondering if it was too soon or too late
To show pictures of his kids back home.
Had been used since early childhood:
First it was one too many cookie,
Next it was a family torn apart.
If one of them is a murderer
Although that’s what some made him out to be
When word got out to the cousins and in-laws.
Hatred is sourced from fear:
Imagine where any of us would be
If we’d lost all faith in “I love you.”
He said as he booked another business trip
Hoping what wouldn’t hold up in court
Might hold up in the bedroom.
What’s another broken heart?
We all want others to participate
In our private pleasure.About the Author
