Here's a short poem by Langston Hughes named "Question":
When the old junk man Death
Comes to gather up our bodies
And toss them into the sack of oblivion,
I wonder if he will find
The corpse of a white multi-millionaire
Worth more pennies of eternity,
Than the black torso of
A Negro cotton-picker?
@infobeautiful This post did it! I had to buy the book.
Now I have to get the 1st book, and ALL your new books! Also, I have to put you in your own list--so I don't miss a post.
Thank you, David, for the GOOD news!
This a great book! Teri's a great author! This is a great price!
If someone tries to charge you more for it, don't go there.
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The newest additions to my t-shirt collection. Guess which one I'm wearing to my next banned book club meeting?
"Given this ugly sentiment, Miss Beryl couldn't decide whether it was appropriate to sympathize with Mr. Blue, but she did anyway. An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental."
--Richard Russo, "Nobody's Fool"
Duress.
"It was a face I'd seen a thousand times at every Derby I'd ever been to. I saw it, in my head, as the mask of the whiskey gentry--a pretentious mix of booze, failed dreams and a terminal identity crisis; the inevitable result of too much inbreeding in a closed and ignorant culture."
--Hunter S. Thompson, "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved"
The whole article and Ralph Steadman's artwork in pdf file in the link below:
"There are these nuns," Howard said. "We ran this story awhile back. They practice something called memento mori. Latin for remember that you die. They sit and pray, meditating on this notion, that in every action we should remember, have to remember, that we die. When they were asked if it was depressing, they said no, quite the opposite. They said it makes life so . . . almost impossibly beautiful."
--John Kenney, "I See You've Called In Dead"
Blind Date
I just finished reading the first chapter of "I See You've Called In Dead" by John Kenney and it's the funniest nine pages I've read in quite a while.
Great stuff! I can't recommend enough!
OK, I'll try, but it's like I'm trying to slam dunk a basketball, when I can't jump 6" off the ground...
You'll love his books. They're great. Life-lessons. Tragedy. Comedy. And they're a good deal. Did I mention cheap?
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