what a gift from god

"What a Gift from God," November 6, 2022 (#310)

title from a friend's email (November 6, 2022)

Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America by Stephen L. Klineberg (2020)

The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston by Marquis James (1929)

last line from "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe (1845)

What a Gift from God

To enable them collectively to make the loans that might well be needed,

the unintentional irregularity of the General's marriage was made the

barriers that poverty imposes on a young person’s ability to succeed

to speak of on the wharf where the well-to-do promenaded and took

a bright yellow, curve-hugging dress with a large ruffle of the same lemony

premonition that some time she would meet this romantic man, and the

region was a slightly better or a much better place in which to live; that

did not neglect the opportunities presented by this unconventional

obligation not to lower our expectations for these kids. If they aren’t

vessels from the hands of creditors, but they were not released,

tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!

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Jeremy Peña (2018) (from here)

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