Been in trouble all my life childhood through old age. I took the alleys

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney

It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people

Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him

If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…

When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.

I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.

What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are