American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

Two autumns and I have not changed enough.

pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough thought into their costumes a wiseman stays ashore when pointed fins read like italian subtitles the end is near (...) the beginning

i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.