Across the street, children pressed two fingers against their lips and exhaled, pretending to smoke. The fog that covered the darkened town felt made of these breathes; sticky warm and based on pretend. The boy with lights in his eyes walked alone and un-costumed. The children hurried on. His sunglasses no longer worked. He couldn’t […]
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Senator Barack Obama broke forcefully on Tuesday due to comments made by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., in an effort to curtail a drama of race, values, patriotism and betrayal that has enveloped his presidential candidacy at a critical juncture. At a news conference here, Mr. Obama denounced […]
by Pattycakes and the Riffers’s Pat Janulis. Tragic
There once was a boy who was named Blog, who had a thing he could flog but when he went to the dance he seized into a trance and the DJ thought he was a log. When I grew up, these were the sorts of limericks my dad used to scream to me before going […]
