I never do take off my wedding ring
- not even in the shower, not to sleep -
it lives with me through every daily task
and unmomentous wandering,
so each demeaning job I turn my hand to
is somehow touched with gold.
It could be, I suppose, a post-it note
with words like honour and fidelity,
but honestly? I mostly like the fact
that it is...
Saturday, 25 June 2016
Friday, 24 June 2016
(Day 1) The Mourning After
"No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."
-- H. L. Mencken, Notes on Journalism (1926)
Oh, we might as...