Dr. Bronwyn Williams Teach Us to Number Our Days by Rita Dove Low-rent balconies stacked to the sky. Donald Trump and Leona Hemsley represented the rise and fall of the rich and famous. The decade began with double-digit inflation. The decade begins with the average Joe just trying to get by. Wayne Williams was arrested in Atlanta for the murders of twenty-three black children.
Life goes on and the incident becomes a faded memory except for the ache in a mamma s heart.
J.R keeps coming back in syndicated reruns. In the old neighborhood, each funeral parlor is more elaborate than the last. If television violence is too much to handle, then there is the option of turning the T.V. set off or switching the channel. There is no option when a youth is gunned down in a meaningless act of violence. There is no alternative in dealing with the reality of violence.