Inadequate words

“We *heart* our customers” it always says on the dry cleaner hanger, even if a financial transaction has a grand social aspect, it’s not quite true and not quite right. Just so the phrases of thanks ring out to returning troops, a mix of a loss for words, and even those words, so well used, [...]

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The Coming Storm

When this war is over, not when banners hang on carriers, when civilians do not wear military garb (when they have used wealth and privilege to buy themselves out of wearing it when called), when the hospitals are no longer filled to the brim, and when the desperation for a semblance of sense falls over [...]

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