Bread Alone

Hard Lessons

58 Hard Lessons I have learned more in the past four years about how to live like an animal than most learn in a lifetime— because of the war because I’ve learned to live with a war. Like clockwork I listen to news reports in the morning and mourn on my way to work where I should scream and don’t where the killing is nowhere to be seen and forgetfulness begins to take root. 59 I’ve learned more in the past four years about the shortening distance between funerals, about business as usual. ...