Darkness
The sun rose in the sky again this morning. Sometimes I wonder why it wants to rise And look at all the wrongs it has to see. Perhaps it doesn’t want to, and can’t help it, The way white people don’t want—I suppose— To be unkind, and yet can’t seem to help it. No, nothing […]
Advice to Advisors
Never tell a soul in sorrow There are others hurt as he Never tell him sure tomorrow Shall supply his remedy. Say his grief’s unprecedented, Pat time’s healing to allay. Let him agonize, contented, While time steals the sting away. –Saturday Evening Post, September 1946
Look Before You Leap, or He Who Hesitates Is Lost
The world is full of good advice To spur us on to victory In sayings pithy and concise And flatly contradictory. –Saturday Evening Post, September 1946 –republished in Halfway Up the Sky