When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck

If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,

He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

It boils down to this. There are two kinds of people in Upper Slobovia at the moment, those who prefer hard-boiled eggs chopped in their potato salad

It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,

I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…

It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner