I didn’t think he would show up, so I spared myself the disappointment by not telling him we were visiting. We would only be in town for four days, and I made plans with everyone I could, except him. After years and years of disappointment, you learn to bottle the resentment, the pain, the “why he don’t want me, man?” mantra and turn it into a trophy of sorts to remind
Farther up the road lay a heart without a body. It was unclear from which soldier it had come. Last line of an article in the Los Angeles Times about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, March 5, 2022There was a dead man lying face down in the road. For days, his body lay in the snow. And the soldiers who saw it felt a wintry stillness move through them. They paused to regard the
Human interactions are not going well today. No matter how brightly and smilingly I position myself behind the chrome counter’s plexiglass barrier, everyone still seems surprised when I speak. “Hello there!” is what I’ve switched to, away from “Hey” which was too aggressive, and “Hi there” which was too flirtatious. I only used “Hello” for the first week or so before the
only that we were not a nasty people but this is what we could afford:a little place in the shade. a little roof over our heads to prayand give thanks the water didn’t seep into our beds or kitchenswhen it rained that the creek didn't rise to crown our sleeping skulls good lordthat we didn't serve a god who pursed his lips at mercy but who give us this day to
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