getting older day by day tight stiff hesitant to step into fire still burning dark shadow scars on life’s charred walls so warm yourself in reflection welcome fears as sweet gifts prepare to face the fire god who remains our barbaric friend wielding a burning sword to stand fierce with us until the end
in the jungle he exchanged his green beret for a loin cloth rode his own elephant fighting beside Montagnard tribesmen with Phoenix Program Project Delta Pleiku Mike Force then home to work as a security guard patrolling JC Penny’s in the mall Harry never killed a shoplifter for his country not a single one decades […]
when bars were bars thick with smoke one rough man stood with scuffed work shoes resting on the brass rail picking whole raw onions from a soup bowl on the bar white beneath peeled thin skin eating onions like apples with salt and pepper smeared with thick yellow butter fat with flavor biting into his […]
Did a Secret Service sniper hold Thomas Matthew Crooks in his rifle sights but not pull the trigger until after Crooks opened fire on former President Donald Trump and people around him at a Butler, Pennsylvania, political rally? Did that Secret Service sniper wait for authorization to shoot that came only after Crooks wounded Trump, […]
A few years ago I paid Leo D’Angelo a couple hundred dollars for a suit. When I checked my closet this morning, I found a Mass card in one of the pockets of that black pinstripe suit I last wore to a first cousin’s funeral. That discovery alone illustrates the true value of the garment. […]
