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

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything

I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...

Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts

They have a few bucks, the 62 richest billionaires in the… The Big 62 have half as much weal… as the bottom half of the world’s… according to Oxfam International.

I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails

I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

For years Willie has saved his mo… investing it in stocks and bonds, waiting to sit in his recliner each quarter with a martini reviewing his profits.