Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.
You're saying things you can't take back. And you don't even mean them.
God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us.
There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.
I would take today's joy, and tomorrow's. I would take it with both hands, anywhere it came.
William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn't been explained yet. Tonight he has made chemistry into magic for her.
A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches as his gaze sweeps from my face all the way down my body to my hips and then back to my face. Ideas fly from his widened eyes and land on me like teeny, decorative burdens. He is giving me shyness, maybe, some book smarts, and a certain yielding sweetness in bed. The oil-slick eyes get me, and I find myself hanging a few ornaments myself, giving him deft hands and a sense of humor.
Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.
It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.