The laying of hands over a warm cup
\nof capuccino won’t deliver us
\nfrom what can be read in this morning’s Sun.<\/p>\n
For years our dailies failed to penetrate
\neven a pulpified body of text
\nwith action verbs and barbed, insightful nouns.<\/p>\n
I asked if this wasn’t unusual
\nand my editor said, “Messenger-gods,
\nlike cloistered monks, can always make amends.”<\/p>\n
White lies stain my fingers in the obits
\nwith gilt on paper — photographs, captions,
\nilluminations cut from the whole cloth,<\/p>\n
bound for the cheapest of rags or tabloids
\nto ward off Times more tasteful than our own.<\/p>\n
WC Roberts lives in a mobile home up on Bixby Hill, on land that was once the county dump. The only window looks out on a ragged scarecrow standing in a field of straw and dressed in his own discarded clothes. WC dreams of the desert, of finally getting his first television set, and of ravens. Above all, he writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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