Empire Falls

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving, and because for a while at least they’d be able to draw unemploy

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving, and because for a while at least they’d be able to draw unemploy

Of the younger man who had wanted to live and die in Mexico and dream and paint and write poetry there was now little evidence.

Of the younger man who had wanted to live and die in Mexico and dream and paint and write poetry there was now little evidence.

Of the younger man who had wanted to live and die in Mexico and dream and paint and write poetry there was now little evidence.

Of the younger man who had wanted to live and die in Mexico and dream and paint and write poetry there was now little evidence.

When Miles was feeling generous, he reminded himself that seventy-something-year-old women probably didn’t enjoy being told that things were old and worn-out, that they’d already lived years beyond a normal life expectancy.

but what he’d written sounded a lot like his poetry, vague and unconvincing even to him