Great Regulars: There's only so much we can do

to better ourselves, and once we've done what we can, it still may not have been enough. Here's a poem by Michelle Y. Burke, who lives in N.Y., in which a man who does everything right doesn't quite do everything right.

Nocturne

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 289

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The Very Old
by Ted Kooser

The very old are forever

from Ted Kooser: The Writer's Almanac: The Very Old by Ted Kooser

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