Poems

I pretty much eat one box of these things every day. Here’s what the manufacturer of these breakfast meats has to say about them: God bless us all.

13 families happy now.12 by sunup. 12 Miners Are Found Alive, Family Members Say – New York Times. SAGO, W.Va., Jan. 3 – Forty-one hours after an explosion trapped 13 men in a West Virginia coal mine here, family members and a state official said that 12 of the miners had been found alive Tuesday…

They sit and lean for papers like disciples reaching toward a biscuit for strength. 11/01/2005, Daley Center Room 1401

There’s something about rhyming that people love.

In just about any disaster, this is one of the stories that inevitably comes out of it. It is immensely human, and goes to the core about what the news can do for us– provide an example that we are loving, that if we just work hard, we can contol things, that we have a…