The Courage to Live It
Shawn Smucker"If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it." John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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The Billionaires Will Live Forever
Photo by Ruslan Zaplatin via Unsplash
As I jog through
my neighborhood, trying to
live a bit longer than I would
otherwise, circling past
my own house once again, as I sweat
and will myself to take another step,
there are bil...
Over and Over and Over
The bookshop air is so still
after story time, little voices
having run their way through, piled out
the door and back onto the sidewalk,
strollers lumbering down steps
diaper bags banging hips
and now only the background hum of...
An Ode to Jeff Bezos and Free Verse Poems
“If people won't pay for our product, it's not a good enough product…
It would be like poetry without rhyming. It's too easy.”
- Jeff Bezos
And I wondered
at the ease with which Walt Whitman
must have penned “Leaves of Grass,” bare...
To My Graduate(s)
There’s a line in Tom’s Crossing where
a parent tells their child as they head
out on their own, “This door ain’t ever
gonna have a bolt you can’t unlock,” in
other words I love you or You’re always
welcome to come home, no matt...
Are You Willing to Live With That?
At first glance it could be
a child’s elementary school drawing,
not yet finished, of a building,
the windows long lines of rectangles
and splashes of color
but why are the tractors crawling
up the walls and why do people stan...
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Living and writing in Lancaster, PA, with my wife and six kids. Co-Owner of Nooks Bookstore and Gallery with my wife, Maile. Author of The Weight of Memory and other novels. I think you should keep writing.
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