stories in my head, part one

One distant relation told me that you’re getting old if the obituaries are filled with your friends or names of the familiar. Once his preferred page was the Sports section of a broadsheet, where victories are bannered, now he peeps first at the Obit, where defeats are confirmed (the Christians invented the afterlife), and feign [...]

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HO-HUM….!

In the 60′s, I always heard my late father litanized that life’s hard. It’s now my turn to say that refrain over and over again. We are faced with the same ogre that never dies. Our government is an entanglement of craft and contraption. Our nation is mired in eternal search for the ideal leader. [...]

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