Ray / a self portrait of sorts (with compliments to Bill Saluga)

Call him

Procrastinator to the next step

Part-time rationalizer

Apprentice to the one who makes the thing.

Call him

Student of the daily recollected 

Jury-rigger

Know-it-all

The one who passed the test for certification.

Call him

Novice

Small Potatoes

Intruder into the lives of those
Who've chosen to remain anonymous. 

Call him

Star-gazer

Ringsider

Striker of the set

Amateur poet of the after-living.

Chisel into his headstone:

"Here lies

The lone assembler of the fragments to his singular life."

Now,—  you can call him Ray

Or you can call him Jay

But-cha doesn’t hasta call him

Know-it-all.