You are Absent-minded

And so you are Joyless

People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

John Updike once said that he was confused by the very concept of “antiwar,” which he felt, and I’m paraphrasing him here, was like being “anti-food” or “anti-sex,” since war was such an essential element of human experience.

Written By Mark Bowden

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