Among the rich, anger’s no rarity:
hatred comes cheaper than charity.
Genus, Aucte, lucri divites habent iram:
odisse quam donare vilius constat.
12.13 by Martial
Further Reading
Mockingbird
by Melissa King Rogers
At nineteen my former student jacks a car with a toy gun. Give me the keys! he says, but he carries her groceries in, unlocks her door—can’t leave her alone in the cold, she looks so scared. Not even an hour later he’s in handcuffs. He’ll get fifteen. Ten if they go easy, a soft judge. […]
21 GREGUERIAS by Daniel Liebert
1. Sunlight – 90 million miles and then through a baby’s ear. 2. Old shoes speak the pungent slang of feet. 3. Musical instruments go blind in pawnshop windows. 4. A coffee ring on a book is the hoof-print of Pegasus. 5. Birds began as secretaries to the dinosaurs. 6. Thrown out unused, the condom will never know what it […]
R. Clifton Spargo interviewed by Okla Elliott: The Lost Chapter
Okla Elliott: You chose the end of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald’s relationship as the focus of your novel. What drew you to that particular portion of their lives? And, more broadly speaking, what drew you to that particular literary couple as opposed to, say, Vivian and T.S. Eliot or Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, etc.? R. […]
