Why not go out with a smile?

the quickly growing culture of rape. 

o my brother, under blind minute hands 

we are climbing toward midnight. -georg trakl 

we are suffering the accident of our survival 

in these human bodies the best way that we can, 

but often it is not nearly enough. 

we are casting off the weight of our fathers 

and we bless our daughters as well as our sons. 

at least th…