There’s a woman named Penny who lives next door to my in-laws on a good-sized piece of land in Bath, Michigan. She has horses, dogs, and a baby deer. She has kids: girls in, or just out of, high school I believe.
She has thirty days to move out of the house. She can’t pay her mortgage.
Penny is temporarily leaving the animals on an acreage that belongs to her boyfriends parents.
Penny is going to be living in a horse trailer with no water or electricity.
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There’s a guy who plays guitar everyday on the corner of Mt. Hope and Pennsylvania in Lansing, Michigan. He has a bucket at his feet and a sign around his neck that says “Food”. He’s out there everyday.
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I’m tired and I have a lot of reading and grading to do…
…I have to swing by Kroger in the morning and pick up some peanut butter crackers, or tuna, or beef jerkey.
Something that will keep in a guitar case for a few hours.
If you can make any time, and you live in the area, go listen to some street music. The cover charge is a bottle of water, but a bunch of bananas would get you into the show.
one... but not the same 
“I want to see you smile again
Like diamonds in the dust
The amazing sound of the killing hordes
The day the banks collapse on us
Cease this endless chattering
Like everything is fine
When sorry is not good enough
Sit in the back while no-one drives
So glad you’re mine”
-Radiohead, The Amazing Sound of Orgy