Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Great Regulars: Bad news all too often arrives

with a ringing telephone, all too early in the morning. But sometimes it comes with less emphasis, by regular mail. Here Allan Peterson of Florida gets at the feelings of receiving bad news by letter, not by directly stating how he feels but by suddenly noticing the world that surrounds the moment when that news arrives.

The Inevitable

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 159

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