Sometimes children cry in the night and mothers will rock them. Cover up the children against the cold. Wrap them in blankets and smooth their cheeks with the palms of trembling hands. Rock them and rock them, until slowly perhaps they will fall asleep. Feel the soft brush of their hair against your lips.
People buy canned goods and water.
The man in the line in front of you has 25 gallon jugs of water on the turnstile register. He carries a crowbar in one hand and glares at people and the manager stands at the head of the register and watches the man, but he doesn't say a word. He lets the man pay and go on his way. You want to say something. That maybe 'your' family needed some of that water.