Lamentation for Songbirds
If the birds were first, other small things would surely follow, and we are the caretakers of small things.
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Join NOW!If the birds were first, other small things would surely follow, and we are the caretakers of small things.
...moreThe process of guiding people to speak their truths was isolating.
...moreThe obscenities and tragedies of American life pile up with speed, and in quantities, that are appalling.
...moreLove twists itself into fear, into statistics, into things people can live with.
...moreI do the best I can to reach out to those I see isolated or disturbed, but I have to also be careful I don’t make myself a target.
...moreTo deny violence is to do it. Our surprise at Sandy Hook and Cold Springs and Columbine is a form of violence in its own right.
...moreAnd while the faces and nomenclature between these historically discrete agents of change differ, the one governing commonality remains the same: unfettered gun ownership and correlative violence play a pivotal role.
...moreThe Rumpus Book Club chats with Rick Moody about his new book Hotels of North America, unreliable narrators, hotel porn, how titles are uncopyrightable, and Internet comment sections.
...moreIn my extended family, a generation ago, it was the odd household that didn’t have guns. I think that for my father’s father, a gun served mainly as another mechanical thing to tinker with.
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