Reflections

"It Never LeavesSilent terror breaks,the stillnesswithin the room.Cooing softly:Done then gone. And:Then left lying there,naked;violated and bruised.Not yet old enough,to identify;with the hurt ..."

"Work. Not hard. Just long. 8,320 days long. 66,560 hours long. Getting bored, can't get out; 32 years, at this dreaded job. No buy-out coming, too old to quit. No money to retire; so here I sit. Work..."

"Mother in LawMy mother in law is really quite swellHer only problem is....well hellIt's her smell.An expert you would think she'd bewith a nose as big and long as me.She walks through a room and:Child..."

"My Grandmother Was quite short and stout. Had to be to accommodate her heart. My Grandmother Lived through live poor. Yet was the richest person I knew. Mt Grandmother Had very little education. I l..."

"The school that I used to attend,way back then,was smallcompared with schools of now.Problems within were somewhat similarthen;we had our bullies too.Ralph for oneappeared large and strong,to be feare..."

"Every year around this time tradition begins anew we must go out and get a tree, even if it's fourty below Clothes prepared an hour here, truck warming an hour there, sharpen the axe, get the rope an..."