Friday, January 16, 2026

John M. Church, Attorney at Law - From Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, Attorney at Law

I was the attorney for the "Q," and the indemnity company which insured the ownners of the mine. I pulled the wires with judge and jury, and the upper courts to beat the claims of the crippled, the widow, the orphan, and made a fortune thereat. The bar association sang my praises in a high-flown resolution, and the floral tributes were many. But the rats devoured my heart, and a snake made a nest inside my skull.

It's down to one belief these days

For the past decade or so I've come to believe in only two things: The pure wonder of the natural world and the Law. I no long believe in the law on account to these six members of the highest court in the United States of America, with their shadow dockets and enabling rhetoric of the devil himself and his evil, deeply flawed minions. So, absent the human species, I still have the flora and fauna to lean on. Comes now the hour, "The glory of the flower."