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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