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The Prodigal

Dark morning rain
Meant to fall
On a prison and a schoolyard,
Falling meanwhile
On my mother and her old dog.

How slow she shuffles now
In my father's Sunday shoes.
The dog by her side
Trembling with each step
As he tries to keep up.

I am on another corner waiting
With my head shaved.
My mind hops like a sparrow
In the rain.
I'm always watching and worrying about her.

Everything is a magic ritual,
A secret cinema,
The way she appears in a window hours later
To set the empty bowl
And spoon on the table,
And then exits
So that the day may pass,
And the night may fall
Into the empty bowl,
Empty room, empty house,
While the rain keeps
Knocking at the front door. — Charles Simic

Eating, too, has been turned away from its true nature: want on the one hand and superfluity on the other have troubled the clarity of this need, and all the profound, simple necessities in which life renews itself have similarly been obscured. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. — Rowan Atkinson

He resented our oddness without the rest of the equation. He felt left out even though he knew the stories of the origins. By the transitive property, he shouldn't have liked her since he didn't like her handiwork, but somehow he stubbornly never did that math. — Jamie Mason

I love getting the pontoon boat out, and I don't get to do it as much anymore. If I know in two weeks or a month from now I've got three days off, I can start planning for that stuff, getting out there with friends and family and relaxing, just floating around and hanging out. — Blake Shelton

There's nothing worse than the day you find out that your parents are nasty, horny mortals like everyone else. It just kills your childhood. — Candice Raquel Lee

Trample! Trample! It is to be trampled on by you that I am here. — Shusaku Endo

A willing mind makes a hard journey easy. — Philip Massinger

Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation. — W. Edwards Deming

I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game. — Rickey Henderson

He who can no longer listen to his brother will soon no longer be listening to God, either. - DIETRICH BONHOEFFER — Various

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually. — Aeschylus

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back. — Henry Rollins

Living for your purpose is equivalent to living for the Kingdom of God — Sunday Adelaja

In a life full of work, family, civic responsibilities, commutes and errands, your training runs offer fertile opportunity to lean inward and listen. — Gina Greenlee