Robert E. Lee Day

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpentlike qualities is to be sentimental, anemic, and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses. ― Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love Trump’s not a perfect man, by any means. He kind of reminds me of my […]

Great

I read somewhere that this is the most depressing week of the year. This fact is unknown to everyone I met yesterday, who chatted happily about their recent travels to Asia and California, about how they love snow, about how beautiful it was, how they never get cold, actually. I liked the “beautiful snow” business, […]

Lost

This is where they keep the stars. I look up, while driving, balancing my life at 75 miles an hour and my eyes wanting stars. To the stars though difficulty. The highway to Lawrence becomes a main drag of Lawrence, 23rd Street. I couldn’t have told you K-10 becomes 23rd Street because I had never […]

See

With what rapture/with what rapture/gaze we on these glorious scars How dark has it been? Dark. Again this week when I went to church, I had the feeling we were all sitting there, thinking, really? This is still happening? The priest said, we never thought a woman would be publicly humiliated the way women have […]