FIFTEEN MILES The road keeps rolling bend after bend, Seems to me it will never end. My leg must be broken and I’m moving slow, With fifteen scorching hot miles to go. We ran out of gasoline last week, Luckier…
POLITICS! Impassioned calls for “change” Bring a cold hand coming for my last dime. Proclamations of “the greater good” Bring the greater evil every time. Amongst the manifestations of evil, Politics is the most spidery one. It takes a murderous…
I AM NOT THE SAME I am the beast who beats his family down. I am drama queen, philosopher, and clown. I am an orchid where the thistles grow, I am seldom the same five minutes in a row. I…
PARALLEL LINES Forward racing. Not embracing. Courses fixed. Eternity betwixt. Never stopping – never pausing, Never caused and never causing, Neither destined to connect, Nor even for an instant intersect. It is sad we have no way to compare These…
The Viper’s Tangle, a novel by Francois Mauriac, was a favorite of Flannery O’Connor’s, which is why I wanted to read it. My hope that the novel would clarify O’Connor’s religious perspective and way of thinking was fulfilled. (Spoilers follow.)…