Sal[vation]

Sal opened the letter. He read it slowly. It was the second such letter he had received. He put the letter down on the counter.

rusting by resting
words already dusting
into silent still
air

meaning is bleeding
wounds already healing
slowly sowing a
stare

Turning to the stove, Sal turned off the kettle. The steam climbed to the low ceiling and spread like an inverted flood. He stared through the fog. Minutes passed and he began to sweat from the shrouding steam. The kitchen was small.

Half Mast Revolution Blues

pardon our dusk

under reconstruction

A toast to the new year and a changing climate.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness [...] But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Are we there yet? Maybe not.

That's the beauty of America - America can change.
-BHO